Queerness is a structuring and educated mode of desiring that allows us to see and feel beyond the quagmire of the present.

He engages with queer photography, art, literature, and performance as windows into the possibility of queer utopia. That is to say, Muñoz exemplifies the necessity for change embodied in time and space, and the constant (re)consideration(s) of hope and potentiality inherent in queer Otherness. In No Future, Edelman argues that if queer people have been positioned in opposition to the ‘reproductive futurity’ of heterosexuality, they should abandon the future altogether in favour of a more nihilistic, radical engagement with the present.

The book was widely praised by scholars and influential in beginning new conversations in queer theory. The ideas that gay suicide is an act of self-liberation, that gay men who enjoy masculine men are brainwashed or ignorant, that the fight for gay marriage rights is not one worth fighting, are not just the opinions of an academic writing theory to further his career--they are active dangers to the rights gay people have fought tooth and nail to hold. The LGBT agenda for too long has been dominated by pragmatic issues like same-sex marriage and gays in the military. this book makes a necessary and thoughtful contribution not just to queer studies, its most explicit disciplinary frame of reference, but also to interdisciplinary cultural studies more generally.

My only reservations about the book are that at times it was excessive with the philosophical jargon and somewhat pedantic in discussions of definitions; this was more so the case in the final few chapters about a few artists and their movements. Fisher has by and large become a meme at this point, which is also disheartening, and also frustrating and seemingly contrary to the spirit of Fisher’s work.

The current age is leaving queers feeling more and more hopeless; this book helped me combat this hopelessness. Muñoz offers a radical political vision and critique, but does not fall into the trap of sheer negativity present in so much criticism.

A hope in the possibility of not becoming weighed down in pragmatic political debates about marriage and gay rights.that's the inversion i think; while munoz is pushing that queerness is about enacting something that doesn't exist and Hope-fully, that does kind of just mean that you are really living something that doesn't exist right now. The million copy bestseller, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and.