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Quite academic and dense material.
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Wow! There is so much in this text that I wish to orient my life around. Although Muñoz famously defines queerness as something that is “not yet here,” something forever on the horizon, Cruising Utopia is a reminder of the queer ways of being in the world that exist and have existed, if only in traces. “Queerness is that thing that lets us feel that this world is not enough, that indeed something is missing." Recently I have found myself unwittingly immersed within what Muñoz calls “straight time,” within the hegemony of homonormative thinking and political pragmatism, but this text has pulled, is pulling, me out of that state. It is critical, necessary work for my queer soul.
“Some will say that all we have are the pleasures of this moment, but we must never settle for that minimal transport; we must dream and enact new and better pleasures, other ways of being in the world, and ultimately new worlds.”
“Some will say that all we have are the pleasures of this moment, but we must never settle for that minimal transport; we must dream and enact new and better pleasures, other ways of being in the world, and ultimately new worlds.”
I think I need to reread chapters from this book; often times I found myself wondering how the chapter got from point a to point b or how the case studies used in the text related directly to a futuristic world/utopia for the queer body
“The present is not enough. It is impoverished and toxic for queers and other people who do not feel the privilege of majoritarian belonging […] the idea is not simply to turn away from the present. One cannot afford such a maneuver […] the present must be known in relation to the alternative temporal and spatial maps provided by a perception of past and future affective worlds.”
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