How Much More Munoz?

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Poll #26823 How Much Munoz

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What chapters from Cruising Utopia Should Frac Discuss?

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Gesture, Ephemera, and Queer Feeling: Approaching Kevin Aviance
1 (11.1%)

Cruising the Toilet: LeRoi Jones / Amiri Baraka, Radial Black Traditions, and Queer Futurity
4 (44.4%)

Stages: Queers, Punks, and the Utopian Performative
6 (66.7%)

Utopia's Seating Chart: Ray Johnson, Jill Johnston, and Queer Intermedia as System
1 (11.1%)

Just Like Heaven: Queer Utopian Art and the Aesthetic Dimension
2 (22.2%)

A Jete Out the Window: Fred Herko's Incandescent Illumination
0 (0.0%)

After Jack: Queer Failure, Queer Virtuosity
3 (33.3%)

Race, Sex, and the Incommeasurate: Gary Fisher with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
2 (22.2%)

Hope in the Face of Heartbreak
6 (66.7%)

You know, having engaged with the first three chapters and feeling pretty good about how that went, I'm no longer feeling the completist urge to work through every single chapter of Cruising Utopia right this minute.

I feel like I understand the project of the book, that I enjoy what he's doing -- I like the way he layers his ideas -- and that I'm okay to widen the critical conversation and then come back to Muñoz.

sovay has mentioned Mark Fisher a couple of times as a strong companion read to Muñoz, and sabotabby, you've been rallying for a Fisher readthrough. Rather than work through every chapter of Muñoz now, I was thinking I might do one or two more chapters now, and then move over to Fisher for the summer. Get some variety into the reading.

In that spirit, and in full awareness that the total respondents to this poll may equal exactly Me, here is a poll about which remaining chapters / essays from Cruising Utopia to cover in this journal.