ISBN:
9781479874569
,
9781479813780
Language:
English
Pages:
xxi, 253 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Edition:
10th anniversary edition
Series Statement:
Sexual cultures
DDC:
306.7601
Keywords:
Queer theory
;
Utopias
;
Homosexuality and art
;
Performance art
;
Homosexualität
;
Kunst
;
Queer-Theorie
;
Utopie
Abstract:
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 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author.
Note:
Revised edition of the author's Cruising utopia, c2009
,
Includes bibliographical references and index
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