{"id":409,"date":"2013-02-28T01:21:38","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T01:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/?p=409"},"modified":"2013-02-28T01:21:38","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T01:21:38","slug":"this-book-cruising-utopia-the-then-and-there-of-queer-futurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/2013\/02\/28\/this-book-cruising-utopia-the-then-and-there-of-queer-futurity\/","title":{"rendered":"This Book: Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are looking for an interesting read into one activist&#8217;s vision of what a queer future would look like then this is the book for you.\u00a0Jos\u00e9 Esteban Mu\u00f1oz, who is also\u00a0the keynote speaker for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Five-College-Queer-Sexuality-and-Gender-Conference\/139110596142488?ref=ts&amp;fref=ts\">Five College Queer Gender and Sexuality Conference<\/a>\u00a0(happening this Friday and Saturday, March 1 and 2),\u00a0presents his vision of a radical gay aesthetic through the mediums of literature, writing, and even performance to present his vision of a utopian queer future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In both Cruising Utopia and Disidentifications, Mu\u00f1oz traces his queer theoretical genealogy through sources as varied as women-of-color feminism on the one hand, and a certain tradition of Marxian thought on the other. He cruises theory, moving seamlessly from Anzald\u00faa and Alarc\u00f3n to Ernst Bloch, CLR James, Adorno, Derrida and Raymond Williams, those figures in leftist thought whose work is not typically mined within queer scholarship. Similarly if we trace the genealogy of what has now come to be known as queer of color and queer diasporic critique, Mu\u00f1oz&#8217;s work&#8211;with its insistence on the endlessly imaginative modes of being that emerge within queer, and particularly queer of color, subcultures&#8211;stands as a crucial milestone.&#8221;-Gayatri Gopinath, Social Text\/Periscope,<\/p>\n<p>You can find this book on the Five College Catalog <a href=\"http:\/\/fcaw.library.umass.edu\/F\/M2VB7KNVDSE9AMD398SI78EAX4NQ27T7H6JE75KAR7ST8A23MK-04826?func=full-set-set&amp;set_number=039889&amp;set_entry=000004&amp;format=999\" target=\"_blank\">here!<\/a>\u00a0And we even have an online version available <a href=\"http:\/\/fcaw.library.umass.edu\/F\/M2VB7KNVDSE9AMD398SI78EAX4NQ27T7H6JE75KAR7ST8A23MK-04818?func=full-set-set&amp;set_number=039889&amp;set_entry=000003&amp;format=999\" target=\"_blank\">here!<\/a> for easy reading on the go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are looking for an interesting read into one activist&#8217;s vision of what a queer future would look like then this is the book for you.\u00a0Jos\u00e9 Esteban Mu\u00f1oz, who is also\u00a0the keynote speaker for the Five College Queer Gender and Sexuality Conference\u00a0(happening this Friday and Saturday, March 1 and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":322,"featured_media":444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13906],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-this___","column","threecol","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}