roisinie 's review for:

Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity by José Esteban Muñoz

5.0

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“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.”