'Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality. Put
another way, we are not yet queer. We may never touch queerness, but we can feel
it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality. We
have
never been queer, yet queerness exists for us as an
ideality that can be distilled from the past and used to imagine a future. The
future is queerness’s domain. Queerness is a structuring and educated mode of
desiring that allows us to see and feel beyond the quagmire of the present. The
here and now is a prison house. We must strive, in the face of the here and
now’s totalizing rendering of reality, to think and feel a then and there. Some
will say that all we have are the pleasures of this moment, but we must never
settle for that minimal transport; we must dream and enact new and better
pleasures, other ways of being in the world, and ultimately new worlds.
Queerness is a longing that propels us onward, beyond romances of the negative
and toiling in the present. Queerness is that thing that lets us feel that this
world is not enough, that indeed something is missing. Often we can glimpse the
worlds proposed and promised by queerness in the realm of the aesthetic. The
aesthetic,especially the queer aesthetic, frequently contains blueprints and
schemata of a forward-dawning futurity. Both the ornamental and the quotidian
can contain a map of the utopia that is queerness... Queerness is essentially
about the rejection of a here and now and an insistence on potentiality or
concrete possibility for another world' ( Cruising Utopia: the Then and There of
Queer Futurity, 2009)
Cuban-born American queer theorist José
Esteban Muñoz died last month in New York at the age of 46.
See also: Having a Coke With You: For José Esteban Munoz
(1966- 2013):
http://punctumbooks.com/blog/coke-jose-esteban-munoz-1966-2013/
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