...Christopher Cutrone Duke University Press 2000 1026-03.Cutrone (249-286) 5/1/00 12:27 PM Page 249 THE CHILD WITH A LION The Utopia of Interracial Intimacy Christopher Cutrone I see daylight again . . . trying to reiterate...

... of these forms of exploitation. Turning our attention to the set of crises defining the period we understand as neoliberal capitalism—the long wave of recessions and dispossessions stretching from the 1970s to the present—we explore the shared queer and Marxist commitment to concepts of utopia and theories...

... to account for such carnal intensity, or resonance, in studies of the genre. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 RISK AND UTOPIA A Dialogue on Pornography Paul Morris and Susanna Paasonen In his 1977 essay “Entertainment and Utopia,” the film scholar Richard Dyer maps the utopian...

...Brad Epps; Jonathan Katz Duke University Press 2007 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Monique Wittig. Courtesy of Colette Geoffrey Monique Wittig’s Materialist Utopia and Radical Critique Brad Epps...

... Muñoz's ruminations on queer futurity and “anti-antirelational” queerness in Cruising Utopia . More recently, Virginie Despentes writes of former paramour Paul Preciado's desire for a “utopian gender,” adding another wrinkle to the prospects for sex-gender dissidents to imagine a future in which...

... offers a common ground for the beyond-human, kinship-building impulses of environmental thought and for queer theory's congruent impulses of erotic and world-building relationality (as best illustrated in José Esteban Muñoz's Cruising Utopia ). The author contends that what most cogently binds ecopoetics...

...Nishant Shahani In this review, I consider recent works by José Esteban Muñoz ( Cruising Utopia ), Judith (Jack) Halberstam ( The Queer Art of Failure ), and Christopher Castiglia and Christopher Reed ( If Memory Serves ) as investments in the politics of queer futurity. Collectively, I analyze...

... (such as freedom, difference, and equality) beyond/against the liberal episteme. This piece contributes, both empirically and theoretically, to broader debates about the world-making and political powers of queer performances and utopias in/from the global South. Attending to the sociopolitical potentials...

... of a structure of lesbian literary and erotic practices that is useful for thinking about lesbian literary history as well as its future. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s work on reparative reading and the school of queer optimism exemplified by José Esteban Muñoz’s Cruising Utopia undergird the approach to Victorian...

... Henrietta Lacks HeLa H. G. Wells Julian Huxley Henri Bergson new materialism the human life science cellular evolution eugenics racism utopia plasticity Being Cellular Race, the Inhuman, and the Plasticity of Life Jayna Brown In 1951 doctors at Johns Hopkins University Hospital...

... as described in José Muñoz's ( 2009 ) Cruising Utopia and micha cárdenas's ( 2010 ) Trans Desire . Queer hacking, as I envision it, can read racial, gender, and sexual identity as informed by how history is presented; rereading history through different lenses creates the potential to understand and form...

... Feminist, Queer, Crip Alison Kafer Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. xiii + 258 pp. Near the end of Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity, José Esteban Muñoz invites readers to imagine “those who have been cast out of straight time’s...

... of recent work in queer utopias and particularly José Esteban Muñoz’s conceptualization of “concrete utopias” (4), Chávez situates her analysis firmly in the here and now, engaging with a queer migrant politics that is messy, impure, and experimental.1 Inviting us to embrace queerness itself...

... shop is interrupted by a series of fragmented shots of an elderly woman located in a different time and place. While we can assume the woman is Mari's grandmother, it's uncertain when exactly these scenes are occurring. Muñoz ( 2009 : 37) defines a queer utopian memory as “a utopia that understands its...

... with Giovanni Arrighi’s argument that in recent decades the United States has more forcefully asserted its global policing power precisely in defense of its apparently diminishing financial power. So where does one get off talking about utopia? Established queer ques...

..., in a chiasmus emblematic of his “rhetorical” turn, that “black studies” is “burdened by a contrary malady” to queer studies: “the omnipresence of history in our politics” (24, 2). By contrast, queer studies, Best notes, is now “reassessing . . . the optimistic hopes and visions of utopia to which queers find...

... Lartigue, Marcel Proust, and D. W. Winnicott . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Miller D. A. 1992 . Bringing Out Roland Barthes . Berkeley : University of California Press . Muñoz José Esteban . 2009 . Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Utopia . Durham, NC : Duke...

... harm” (108). In Cruising Utopia (2009), Muñoz theorized queerness as something that is not yet here and just over the horizon. Whereas Muñoz focused there on queerness's futuristic temporality, in The Sense of Brown he theorizes brownness as something that we must “accept that it arrives at us...

... already there: the ghosts, the tropes, the scenarios that structure our individual and collective life.”13 José Esteban Muñoz theorizes “hope” as a utopia that might be “staged” to gesture toward “a certain futurity, a could be, a should be,” a thesis he rigorously outlines in Cruising Utopia.14...

... In the body of work The Chameleon Club, I attempt to describe the expe- rience of existing on the edge of identifi cation, the possibility of transformation, and the construction of utopia. The images represent empty stages at music clubs and gay clubs in Los Angeles. Each stage is lit...