Weekly Reading Series - Muñoz
Feb. 11th, 2022 09:43 amDoes anyone else have that problem where if you really want to read something, like you think it will really matter to you and give you something you need -- you actually find it harder to begin? I have that very bad.
So I'm going to do it. I'm going to read Cruising Utopia: the Then and There of Queer Futurity by José Esteban Muñoz. Here, one chapter per week, starting Tuesday, March 1 and posting for (checks ToC) about twelve weeks. You are welcome to read along / discuss. I have ideas about structuring these posts, but also just making them at all might be the entire victory I can manage.
I'm going to start, not with the introduction, but with Chapter 1, "Queerness as Horizon: Hermeneutics in the Face of Gay Pragmatism." This is, well, pragmatic -- I've bounced off the introduction twice.
Plus, since in an academic book the introduction is where you make it sound like you had a plan all along, I think it would be kind of cool to read the introduction last and see how Muñoz's summing up fits with my own.
M. gave the book to me for my birthday last year (last last year) and I'm just not going to get through it without a Plan.
(Thanks![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sovay for being encouraging about partial or indirect successes in matters like these.)
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*I am not looking for any suggestions about why not to read this. I am already expert in discouraging myself and require no assistance on that frint.
So I'm going to do it. I'm going to read Cruising Utopia: the Then and There of Queer Futurity by José Esteban Muñoz. Here, one chapter per week, starting Tuesday, March 1 and posting for (checks ToC) about twelve weeks. You are welcome to read along / discuss. I have ideas about structuring these posts, but also just making them at all might be the entire victory I can manage.
I'm going to start, not with the introduction, but with Chapter 1, "Queerness as Horizon: Hermeneutics in the Face of Gay Pragmatism." This is, well, pragmatic -- I've bounced off the introduction twice.
Plus, since in an academic book the introduction is where you make it sound like you had a plan all along, I think it would be kind of cool to read the introduction last and see how Muñoz's summing up fits with my own.
M. gave the book to me for my birthday last year (last last year) and I'm just not going to get through it without a Plan.
(Thanks
sovay for being encouraging about partial or indirect successes in matters like these.){rf}
*I am not looking for any suggestions about why not to read this. I am already expert in discouraging myself and require no assistance on that frint.
