Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity

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217 Adorno, Theodor, 2, 37–39, 42, 54, 64, 99, 125, 165; “casting of pictures,” 38–39, 42, 73, 125 ACT-UP, 61 aesthetic dimension. See queer affective, methodology, 3, 4 Agamben, Giorgio, 3, 9, 21, 90, 99– 100, 162 Albers, Joseph, 119 antiutopianism, 4, 10, 12, 14, 18, 21, 26, 31, 165, 173 Anzaldúa, Gloria, 84 Aristotle, 9, 99 Athey, Ron, 160 Austin, J. L., 9, 15, 26 Aviance, Kevin, 4, 57, 65–67, 73–81 B, Franko, 160 Badiou, Alain, 21 Banes, Sally, 84, 148, 148, 157 Baraka, Amina, 95 Baraka, Shani, 94 Barthes, Roland, 22 Basquiat, Jean-Michel, 145 Bawer, Bruce, 54, 64 becoming, 15, 26; queer, 72, 112, 123 being, 159, 176; horizons of, 22; in the world, 5, 121 “belonging-in-difference,” 20 Benjamin, Walter, 2, 3, 15 Berlant, Lauren, 17, 49 Bernstein, Richard, 126 Bersani, Leo, 11, 34–35, 94 binary oppositions; absence/presence, 9, 15, 46, 100; future/past, 49; HIV-positive/negative, 46–47; ideality /actuality, 43; pleasure/pain, 74; potentiality/actuality 9; truth/ falsity, 9; utopianism/pragmatism, 20 Bishop, Elizabeth, 4, 70–72, 167, 187–89 Black Mountain, 119 blackness; aesthetic practices, 83–84; critiques of hyper-masculinity, 73, 77, 79, 85–86; radical tradition, 87–88, 91; vernacular tradition, 61, 165 Blake, Nayland, 118 Bloch, Ernest, 2–4, 7, 9, 12, 19, 21, 25, 27–31, 37, 40, 43, 83, 87, 90–91, 93, 97, 99, 104, 116, 125–26, 128, 132, 135, 140, 143, 147, 149–50, 152, 154, 163, 165–66, 173; anticipatory illumination, 3, 7, 15, 18, 22, 28, 49, 64, 87, 91, 99, 104, 109, 153, 177; astonishment, 5; aura-ofart , 116; “no-longer-conscious,” 12, 19–21, 24, 26–31, 83–84, 87, 135, 149, 153, 160, 173; not-yet-here, 12, 46, 83, 86–90, 96, 183, 187; ornamental, 1, 7, 104, 128, 132, 143–44, 150, 162; “preappearance,” 147; utopian function-of-art, 7, 37, 99; “wish landscape,” 5, 140, 142, 152, 171 Index 218 Index Bloomberg, Michael, 53–55 Bollen, Jonathan, 66, 76–77 Bond, Justin, 69 Bowery, Leigh, 76 Brecht, George, 150 Brookes, Daphne, 177 Burroughs, William, 85–86 Burt, Ramsay, 78, 148 Butler, Judith, 92–93 Butt, Gavin, 4 Cage, John, 119, 135 Cage, Xenia, 123 camouflage, 131–32, 137–42, 146 camp, 70, 148, 150, 170 Carmines, Al, 150–51, 157 Carroll, Lewis, 143 Castle, Terry, 46 Castoriadis, Cornelius, 56 Cervenka, Exene, 97, 103, 112 Charlip, Remy, 165 Chicago Feel Tank, 17 Cornell, Joseph, 118 Cortiñas, Jorge, 119 Coetzee, J. M., 141 Crane, Hart, 188–89 Crimp, Douglas, 33–34, 37, 48 Cunningham, Merce, 119, 135, 137, 141 Daley, John, 160 Davis, Vaginal, 101, 110, 181 Dean, Dorothy, 84 De Carlo, Yvonne, 171, 172 Delaney, Samuel, 13, 18, 49–55, 57, 64, 84, 104, 188 Deleuze, Giles, 182 Denby, Edwin, 125 Derrida, Jacques, 28, 65, 99 desire, 38, 96; erotic economy or “dominant imprint,” 57, 59, 144; political, 31, 35, 48 Dewey, John, 21 dialectical, 37–38, 43, 87, 155; Hegelian , 55; utopian, 56 Diamond, Elin, 67 Dinshaw, Carolyn, 17 di Prima, Diane, 85–86, 88, 125, 149– 50, 153–55, 157, 159, 163, 165 disindentification, 75, 145, 169 Dodd, Johnny, 148, 166 Dolan, Jill, 4, 17 Dowd, John, 117 Dowd, Luke, 117–18, 123, 128–30 Dowd, Nancy, 123, 127 Doyle, Jennifer, 4 Drag, 180; temporal, 17; Kiki and Herb, 69–70 Du Bois, W. E. B., 79–80 Duggan, Lisa, 20, 30, 52, 54 Dunayevskaya, Raya, 56 Dunn, Robert, 117, 120 ecstasy, 24, 185–87; Heidegger, 25, 186. See also temporality Edelman, Lee, 11, 22, 88, 90–95 Elliot, Missy, 76 emotional situation, 97, 176 evidence, ephemeral, 65–67, 71, 81, 115, 118, 121, 127, 149; queer, 27, 70, 74, 81, 160 failure; politics of, 17–18, 27, 153, 157; queer, 154–55, 169, 172–74, 177, 180; of speech act theory, 9–10, 15, 154, 173 Fanon, Franz, 93 Felman, Shoshana, 13, 15, 154 Fields, Magentic, 185–87 Fluxus, 119, 150 Fonda, Peter, 123 Forde, Gerard, 153 Foster, Susan Leigh, 148, 150, 152, 159 Foucault, Michel, 15, 123 Index 219 Francine, Frances, 153 Freccero, Carla, 17 Freeman, Elizabeth, 17 Freud, Sigmund, 33, 136–37 Franklin, Paul, 67, 78 Fuss, Diana, 46 Futurity; afro-futurism, 94–96; antireproductive , 91, 94; Heidegger, 16; in the present, 49, 55–56, 62; queer, 18, 19–23, 26, 30, 87–88, 91, 93, 127; as trace, 42...