Cruising Dystopia

ABSTRACT

Cruising Utopia locates utopian yearning based in what Muñoz called a “performative insistence on ‘the nothing’ (the not there)” that is “both queer and utopian” in its refusal of capitalist, heteronormative projections of reality. The occupation of that “nothing”-ness, the author proposes, offers its own utopian possibility: making “nothing” into a potent critique of power, a movement toward unmaking a world.