Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity 10th Anniversary Edition Audiobook (Free)

The LGBT agenda for too long has been dominated by pragmatic issues like same-sex marriage and gays in the armed forces. It has been stifled by this myopic focus on the present, which is definitely short-sighted and assimilationist.

Cruising Utopia seeks to break the present stagnancy by cruising ahead. Sketching on the task of Ernst Bloch, Jose Esteban Muñoz recalls the queer previous for assistance in presaging its upcoming. He considers the work of seminal performers and writers such as for example Andy Warhol, LeRoi Jones, Frank about Cruising Utopia: The After that and There of Queer Futurity 10th Wedding anniversary Model O’Hara, Ray Johnson, Fred Herko, Samuel Delany, and Elizabeth Bishop, alongside modern performance and visual artists like Dynasty Ladies handbag, My Barbarian, Luke Dowd, Tony Simply, and Kevin McCarty in order to decipher the anticipatory illumination of art and its own uncanny ability to open up windows to the future.

In a startling repudiation of the actual LGBT movement has held dear, Muñoz contends that queerness is instead a futurity destined trend, a ‘not really yet here’ that critically engages pragmatic presentism. Part manifesto, part love-letter to the past and the future, Cruising Utopia argues that this here and now are not enough and issues an urgent demand the revivification from the queer political imagination.