In the midst of writing there is merriment.
- Gertrude Stein
Queer idealism may be the only way to usher in a new mode of radicalism that can perhaps release queer politics from its current death grip.

- Jose Muñoz in Cruising Utopia, 2009
Fred Herko
by AR

One small jeté—
a dancer teaches the clouds
how to drift and fly.
Queerness, as I am describing it here, is more than just sexuality. It is this great refusal of a performance principle that allows the human to feel and know not only our work and our pleasure but also our selves and others.

- Jose Muñoz in Cruising Utopia, 2009
come on, meet me on the dance floor
The music goes on
The music goes on
The music goes on
The music goes on

I am on the same page as Bollen when he considers the dance floor as space where relations between memory and content, self and other, become inextricably intertwined.

- Jose Muñoz in Cruising Utopia, 2009
Cruising Utopia (2009) so far - Chapter Three
by AR

If Heidegger is the philosopher of Being,
and Bloch is the philosopher of the Not-Yet,
then Derrida is, in many ways, the philosopher of the No-Longer.

But a "no-longer" that keeps returning.

This is why Muñoz is able to bring Bloch and Derrida together in such a compelling way:

—from Bloch comes the future;
—from Derrida comes the ghost.

And the result is almost a formula for Cruising Utopia:

the queer future is inhabited by the ghosts of past possibilities.
Confused by the spectacle around me
- Allen Ginsberg
A photograph
Shows you in a London
room; books, a painting,
your smile

- James Schuyler
Roland Barthes wrote that the mark of the utopian is the quotidian.
- Jose Muñoz in Cruising Utopia, 2009
I suggest that holding queerness in a sort of ontologically humble state, under a conceptual grid in which we do not claim to always already know queerness in the world, potentially staves off the ossifying effects of neoliberal ideology and the degradation of politics brought about by representations of queerness in contemporary popular culture.

- Jose Muñoz in Cruising Utopia, 2009
the thing-that-is-not-yet-imagined
- alain badiou
Queerness is not quite here; it is, 
in the language of Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben, a potentiality.

- Jose Muñoz in Cruising Utopia, 2009
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