Sujets :
Théorie queer
Utopies
Homosexualité et art
Manœuvre artistique
Sociologie de la culture

Dépouillement du document :
Queerness as horizon : utopian hermeneutics in the face of gay pragmatism
Ghosts of public sex : utopian longings, queer memories
The future is in the present : sexual avant-gardes and the performance of utopia
Gesture, ephemera, and queer feeling : approaching kevin aviance
Cruising the toilet : Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka, radical black traditions, and queer futurity
Stages : queers, punks, and the utopian performative
Utopia's seating chart : Ray Johnson, Jill Johnston, and queer intermedia as system
Just like heaven : queer utopian art and the aesthetic dimension
A jet out the window : Fred Herko's incandescent illumination
After Jack : queer failure, queer virtuousity
Conclusion: "Take ecstasy with me"
Appendix I: Race, sex, and the incommensurate: Gary Fisher with Eve Kosofsky Sedwick
Appendix II: Hope in the face of heartbreak

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

Cruising Utopia seeks to break the present stagnancy by cruising ahead. Drawing on the work of Ernst Bloch, José Esteban Muñoz recalls the queer past for guidance in presaging its future. He considers the work of seminal artists and writers such as Andy Warhol, LeRoi Jones, Frank O’Hara, Ray Johnson, Fred Herko, Samuel Delany, and Elizabeth Bishop, alongside contemporary performance and visual artists like Dynasty Handbag, My Barbarian, Luke Dowd, Tony Just, and Kevin McCarty in order to decipher the anticipatory illumination of art and its uncanny ability to open windows to the future.

In a startling repudiation of what the LGBT movement has held dear, Muñoz contends that queerness is instead a futurity bound phenomenon, a "not yet here" that critically engages pragmatic presentism. Part manifesto, part love-letter to the past and the future, Cruising Utopia argues that the here and now are not enough and issues an urgent call for the revivification of the queer political imagination.

Collection : Bibliothèque de l'École nationale de cirque

Localisation : Bibliothèque

Cote : 306.760 1 M9671c 2019

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