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Nancy Fraser, while agreeing with Judith Butler, diverges from the queer
theorist in several important ways.
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and accede to their status as figures for the force of a negativity that he
links with irony, jouissance, and, ultimately, the death drive itself.
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From Wikipedia:
Is gay marriage good for gays? Are queer people better off when they
see themselves as normal Americans? What is lost when gays go
mainstream? What, after all, is The Trouble With Normal?
Here,Michael Warner, one of our most brilliant social critics, argues
that gay marriage and other moves toward normalcy are bad not just for
gays but for everyone. In place of the sexual status quo, Warner offers a
vision of true sexual autonomy that will forever change the way we think
about sex, shame, and identity.
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The LGBT agenda for too long has been dominated by pragmatic issues
like same-sex marriage and gays in the military. It has been stifled by
this myopic focus on the present, which is short-sighted and
assimilationist.
Cruising Utopia seeks to break the present stagnancy by cruising
ahead. Drawing on the work of Ernst Bloch, Jos Esteban Muoz recalls
the queer past for guidance in presaging its future. He considers the
work of seminal artists and writers such as Andy Warhol, LeRoi Jones,
Frank OHara, Ray Johnson, Fred Herko, Samuel Delany, and Elizabeth
Bishop, alongside contemporary performance and visual artists like
Dynasty Handbag, My Barbarian, Luke Dowd, Tony Just, and Kevin
McCarty in order to decipher the anticipatory illumination of art and its
uncanny ability to open windows to the future.
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story, the performance art of Bob Flanagan, and the journals of Gary
Fisher, as well as critiques of the domesticated queerness and disability
marketed by the Millennium March, or Bravo TVs Queer Eye for the
Straight Guy. McRuer examines how dominant and marginal bodily and
sexual identities are composed, and considers the vibrant ways that
disability and queerness unsettle and re-write those identities in order to
insist that another world is possible.
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