...Christine Bacareza Balance In his chapter “Stages: Queers, Punks, and the Utopian Performative” in Cruising Utopia , José Esteban Muñoz models for us what he terms the “productive consumption” of photographer Kevin McCarty’s work. Inspired by Muñoz’s dialogic approach, recognizing that our own...

..., and the undercommons together. Drawn to Wu Tsang’s 2011 film, Wildness , and in dialogue with Jane Bennett’s Vibrant Matter and its “political ecology of things,” Muñoz extended his thinking on death, loss, and utopia from Cruising Utopia and began an investigation into a postcolonial rendering of the wild...

.... For Muñoz, if queerness is always on the horizon and not-yet-here, brownness is situated in the here-and-now as the materiality of everyday life. While others have taken up the coda of Cruising Utopia as a call to take ecstasy with the utopian thinker, this article begins with the ends and fringes...

... early days at the Graduate Program in Literature at Duke University and in the vibrant context provided by Fredric Jameson, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and many other faculty and students, including close friend Brian Selsky. A reading of Muñoz’s Cruising Utopia sustains the meditation, and this work...

..., Muñoz’s Cruising Utopia shows ways to think about the political importance of disidentification as a means of contesting norms of white supremacy and consolidating authoritarianism. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 queer theory performativity identification and disidentification...

...-­eyed from the gutter — disappeared forever into a queer horizon he dreamed into 118 Tongson · Queer Fundamentalism being. José Esteban Muñoz, the author of Disidentifications and Cruising Utopia, my interlocutor, mentor, fellow-­fried-­chicken-­fiend-­and-­vodka...

... redress. © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 Affective Difference David L. Eng Shouting down utopia is an easy move. It is perhaps even easier than smearing psychoanalytic or deconstructive reading practices with the charge of nihilism. The antiutopian critic of today has...

... that, engaging new forms of technology, do not require the practices of European curatorship. © 2010 Duke University Press 2010 Buzz and Rumble Global Pop Music and Utopian Impulse Jayna Brown Thinking about utopia is relevant in our times. It is particularly urgent in our globalized...

... (2009) and James Baldwin’s novel Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953). © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 Touching Ecstasy Muñozian Theory and the Extension of the Soul Shane Vogel In the final pages ofCruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futu- rity,1 José Esteban Muñoz closes his...

... journal. . . . [They led] a kind of exodus to a new future for the journal. In other words, José’s utopia was in effect even then.”2 Muñoz published repeatedly in this journal, on topics ranging from the queer poetics at the heart of Social Text’s history...

... in which the black youth publics that continue to serve as hip-hop culture’s core constituen- cies imagine the shared utopia toward which they may be attempting to strive. Hip-hop Utopia and Mass Spectacle in the Black Public Sphere...

... and pedagogical, awful or just a relief. That queer leap is what really matters, because in the awareness of the movement space we are not only subjected but also “cruising utopia.” 34 Berlant · On Persistence Deleuze wrote less than half of what I wrote...

... as the protagonist, what other avatars might we fabulate? This essay was written collaboratively as part of a book sprint. See “How This Text Was Written” (in this issue) for more information on the process. 1 See the writings of David Fleming in Lean Logic . 2 Muñoz, Cruising Utopia...

...: a technological utopia of difference. It is not however, a utopia for the Other or one that includes it in any meaningful or progressive way. Rather, it proposes an ideal world of virtual social and cultural reality based on specific methods...

.... Suffice it to say that something is afoot and that here, in the context of this special issue, the time is ripe to reassess an old materialist, Jameson, in the context of today’s new materialism. Much has already been said about Jameson’s writings on utopia, art, dialectics, allegory, history...

..., uncommon, queer. I don’t think you needed to have known him to recognize the right- ness of her observation; that quality is everywhere present in his writings and certainly abundantly so in Disidentifications and Cruising Utopia, his completed monographs.1 This “queer optic,” as he would refer...

.... Different from The Birth of a Nation, how- ever, West Side Story posits an extrafilmic utopia of integration in an unde- fined future. The analogy is most significant in its reception, allowing for divergent ways of constructing...

... disavows the possibility of that choice in Nehru’s modern India. Establishing her own agency within the national imaginary, Vidya pulls Raju back from his return to provincialism to look over the horizon at the dreamscape of thousands of homes for public housing, refl ecting the utopia...

... and utopia, pain as potential, annihilative act as fguration of queer futurity. We do not need the flm to see the ways in which life in the Germs’ circle worked, the particularity of recognizing ourselves not simply being singular but always being marked by a kind of plurality. The mysterious...

... a much broader and deeper range of issues than had previously been the case. 8 See esp. Muñoz, Cruising Utopia . 9 See Keeling, Queer Times, Black Futures ; Musser, Sensual Excess ; Nash, Black Feminism Reimagined ; and Jackson, Becoming Human . There is also the major...