Cruising Utopia. L'altrove e l'allora della futurità queer
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In Libreria
Sinossi
L'arte anticipatoria di Andy Warhol, la poesia di Frank O'Hara e di Elizabeth Bishop, la drammaturgia tragico-erotica di LeRoi Jones, la finzione autobiografica di John Giorno e la cultura del sesso in pubblico, i concerti punk e l'intimità fuorilegge di un gay bar del Queens, l'attivismo guerrilla anonimo contro la «Disneyficazione» di New York, il voguing di Kevin Aviance e i palchi dei locali underground di Los Angeles nelle fotografie di Kevin McCarthy, la mail art di Ray Johnson e la New York Correspondence School, le coreografie del Judson Memorial Theatre e la performance della vita di Fred Herko, il lavoro estetico di John Smith e l'eroismo controculturale di Dinasty Handbag. José Esteban Muñoz attraversa questi e altri luoghi della storia e della cultura queer per tracciare i contorni di un'utopia concreta e ridefinire l'orizzonte del mondo LGBT, che quarant'anni dopo i moti di Stonewall sembra costretto tra due sole alternative: abbracciare il pragmatismo delle politiche normalizzanti inseguendo il matrimonio, la famiglia o una carriera nell'esercito, o abbandonarsi al pessimismo e alla pulsione di morte delle teorie antisociali rinunciando all'idea di futuro e confinando
- ISBN: 8880561383
- Casa Editrice: Produzioni Nero
- Pagine: 270
- Data di uscita: 23-02-2022
Recensioni
I picked this up off the new-books shelf at the library because the title caught my eye, but was really disappointed in it. Since he is explicitly critiquing the current LGBT movement, I had hopes that his "queer" wasn't a synonym for gay men as it (and LGBT, really) so often is. Alas, while there a Leggi tutto
My main takeaway is that clocks are heterosexual nonsense and must be destroyed if we want to achieve Utopia
I love queer theory. It breaks my brain every time, but I love it. ——————————————————————————— “We may never touch queerness, but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality. We have never been queer, yet queerness exists for us as an ideality that can be distilled f Leggi tutto
I would have given this a 3/5, but I think the inclusion of the two extra essays in the new edition actually speak to Munoz’s ability to write with less spurious, less academy-poisoned posture, and reflect my longing for a followup that would’ve built on the many budding ideas in this work. The acade Leggi tutto
Oh god, I wish I was back in school, and I could use the material in this book on a project of my own. This is an "academic text" so it isn't pleasure reading, per se. But Muñoz's theories really hit home. Some of my favourite words—"hope" and "imagine" and "possibility" and "becoming"—are strewn ac Leggi tutto
Muñoz is at his absolute best when he's weaving and recontextualizing philosophical strains around the concept of a forward-dawning queer futurity, using queer movements and gestures such as dance, cruising, drag, and protest as evidence of the utopian longing at the core of queer desire. He reframe Leggi tutto
A dazzling masterpiece of critical theory and cultural analysis, maintaining a firm focus on the key political issues while illustrating them through detailed and beautifully written analyses of queer performance and visual art.
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