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... reading within the wider social field from which it emerges. To do so, I turn to Samuel Delany’s experimental AIDS writing. Delany rewrites academic discourses of deconstruction, forcing critics to confront their affective and historical implication in the AIDS crisis. He uses queer experimental...

...Eric Rofes Times Square Red, Times Square Blue Samuel R. Delany New York: New York University Press, 1999. xviii + 203 pp. $19.95 Duke University Press 2001 GLQ 7.1-04 Rofes 1/11/01 11:55 AM Page 101 Book Review IMPERIAL NEW YORK...

... for the Mercenary: Samuel Delany’s Encounters with Trade The autobiographical work of Samuel Delany, in which he details the psychic and material spaces of queer sexual contact in New York City, provides a frame- work in which to understand the queer economy of trade. I take a slight...

... such as Samuel Delany’s memoir The Motion of Light in Water and John Giorno’s You Got to Burn to Shine function, for Muñoz, as Blochian critiques of the present in that they point to a utopian transport to another time and place, both in the past and in the future. Muñoz foregrounds not the romance of com...

... that redevelopment and redistricting in New York City under Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, with the assistance of the Forty-second Street Development Project and the Walt Disney Corporation, was eliminating the institutional sites where such identities could materialize.18 Samuel R. Delany’s Times Square Red...

... and Michael Warner, Dianne Chisholm, Samuel Delany, and others who have likewise stressed the con- nections between capitalism and public urban spaces for the development of queer affiliation. In Times Square Red, Times Square Blue Delany, like James, gives a specifically historical argument, based...

... that surprise, confound, and unsettle the heteronormative status quo. Nyong o traces fabulist fig- ures in Trajal Harrell, Jason Holliday, Adrian Piper, Melvin Van Peebles, Kara Walker, Samuel Delany, and others, conspiring with them to uproot Blackness and queerness from the demands under which they are bound...

... Delany’s mem- oir, The Motion of Light in Water, which describes his vision of a scene inside a gay bathhouse in 1963. Scott quotes Delany’s observations (“what this experience said was that there was a population-not of individual homosex- uals . . . not of hundreds, not of thousands, but rather...

... individuals and what these contacts offer them. Leung’s usage of con- tact reminds me of how Samuel Delany thinks about the term when he describes sexual subcultures in Times Square porn theaters. According to Delany, while often nonnetworked, fleeting, and random, moments of contact nonetheless offer...

... represented “the untrammeled pursuit of pleasure” and therefore “the opposite of social responsibility,” as Samuel R. Delany ( 1999 : 185) writes of his uncle's homophobia, it now conjures the domestic suburban life of Cam and Mitchell on Modern Family , the feel-good life coaching of Queer Eye 's “fab five...

... to more ephem- eral phenomena that empirical methods often fail to capture. The novelist Samuel Delany warns about “generaliz[ing] from our fictions,” but in this essay I ask that we consider them spaces for sustained inquiry and that we approach this work of pulp fiction as the location...

... . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Delany Samuel . 1999 . Times Square Red, Times Square Blue . New York : New York University Press . Easterling Keller . 2014 . Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space . London : Verso . Hardt Michael Negri Antonio...

... culture; Internet sites and black queer subjectivities; archival work on black gays, lesbians, and bisexuals; bath- houses; Samuel Delany; Melvin Dixon; Josephine Baker; Mabel Hampton; The Garage; Tracks; the Million Man March; homophobia in music, film, and/or pop culture in general; Queen Pen; black...

... of California, Santa Cruz. He is author of Strategies of Deviance: Studies in Gay Male Represen- tation (1995) and Fantastic Living: The Speculative Autobiographies of Samuel R. Delany (forthcoming); he is completing Critical Fantasies: Polymorphous Perver- sity in Contemporary Culture. He is 2003 film...

... for the improvisatory, cross- race, cross- class intimacies of door- to- door canvassing for a political organizing cam- paign (Delany 1999). And although I have never knocked on doors as a (formally) religious evangelist, I would imagine proselytizers experience similar surprises in these strange conversations...

... Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolu- tion and a study of the eighteenth-century Sapphic memoirist, garden designer, and botanical illustrator Mary Delany. Karin Quimby is visiting assistant professor of film, literature, and lesbian and gay studies at Allegheny College. José Quiroga...

...) of the bathhouse experience in prose by Alan Hollinghurst, Robert Glück, Samuel Delany, and Gary Indiana proves more amenable to Chisholm’s purposes. Each writer touches on an aspect of the bathhouse’s historical truth: Hollinghurst on “the fossilization of urban utopia,” Glück...

... within terms offered by entrepreneurial capitalism, they “succumb, like Aragon, to bathhouse mystique” (77). The “affective extremism” (86) of the bathhouse experience in prose by Alan Hollinghurst, Robert Glück, Samuel Delany, and Gary Indiana proves more amenable to Chisholm’s...

...) of the bathhouse experience in prose by Alan Hollinghurst, Robert Glück, Samuel Delany, and Gary Indiana proves more amenable to Chisholm’s purposes. Each writer touches on an aspect of the bathhouse’s historical truth: Hollinghurst on “the fossilization of urban utopia,” Glück...

...) of the bathhouse experience in prose by Alan Hollinghurst, Robert Glück, Samuel Delany, and Gary Indiana proves more amenable to Chisholm’s purposes. Each writer touches on an aspect of the bathhouse’s historical truth: Hollinghurst on “the fossilization of urban utopia,” Glück...