Acknowledgments
Introduction: Feeling Utopia
1 Queerness as Horizon: Utopian Hermeneutics in the Face of Gay Pragmatism
2 Ghosts of Public Sex: Utopian Longings, Queer Memories
3 The Future Is in the Present: Sexual Avant-Gardes and the Performance of Utopia
4 Gesture, Ephemera, and Queer Feeling: Approaching Kevin Aviance
5 Cruising the Toilet: LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, Radical Black Traditions, and Queer Futurity
6 Stages: Queers, Punks, and the Utopian Performative
7 Utopia’s Seating Chart: Ray Johnson, Jill Johnston, and Queer Intermedia as System
8 Just Like Heaven: Queer Utopian Art and the Aesthetic Dimension
9 A Jeté Out the Window: Fred Herko’s Incandescent Illumination
10 After Jack: Queer Failure, Queer Virtuosity
Conclusion: “Take Ecstasy with Me”
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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