Actualized Utopias
The Here and Now of Transgender
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6354236 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Caterina Nirta (0000-0001-7870-5914, University of Roehampton, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 02 |
| Pages | 181-208 |
| Publication date | 2017-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Politics & Gender (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1743-923X • E-ISSN: 1743-9248 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1743923x1600043x |
| OpenAlex | W2508567845 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 22 |
There's no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons” (Deleuze 1992, 4)José Esteban Muñoz opens his bookCruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurityby stating that “queerness is not here yet. Queerness is an ideality ... an ideality that can be distilled from the past and used to imagine a future.” Queerness, continues Muñoz, “is a longing that propels us onward ... Queerness is essentially about the rejection of the here and now” (2009, 1). He identifies queer utopias with an idea of futurity as an attempt to think of something else that goes beyond the “here and now,” an act of resistance: “the present is not enough. It is impoverished and toxic for queers and other people who do not feel the privilege of majoritarian belonging, normative tastes and ‘rational’ expectations ... The present must be known in relation to the alternative temporal and spatial maps provided by a perception of past and future affective worlds” (27). In this article, I aim to show just the opposite. The argument I make here is that queer utopia—transgender—is a futurity of thehereand of thenow,avirtualitythat does not belong to the past nor does it lend itself to projections of the future, but it is totally immersed in the very now of the present
Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis · Art · Art history · Epistemology · Normative · Political science · Privilege (computing · Queer · Queer theory · Sociology · Transgender · Utopia · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics
Architecture and utopia
The Concept of Utopia
The Story of Utopias, by Lewis Mumford
The History of Utopian Thought, by Joyce O. Hertzler
Utopian Thought in the Western World
Michel Foucault
The Promise of Happiness
Mapping Utopias
Heidegger and `the concept of time
The Reality of the Virtual
Bergson, Deleuze and the Becoming of Unbecoming
What Is Philosophy
A thousand plateaus
The Good City
Sex Changes'? Paradigm Shifts in 'Sex' and 'Gender' following the Gender Recognition Act
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |