TY  - BOOK
AU  - O'Rourke, Michael
AB  - Queer Insists is a memorial essay, a work of mourning, written for the queer theorist and performance scholar José Esteban Muñoz (1967-2013) shortly after his untimely death in December 2013. In a series of fragments, not unlike Roland Barthes’s Mourning Diary, Michael O’Rourke shares memories of Muñoz, the stories and reflections of his friends in the wake of his passing, and readings of his work from Disidentifications to Cruising Utopia and beyond. O’Rourke argues that, for Muñoz, queer does not exist, per se, but rather insists, soliciting us from the future to-come. Muñoz reached towards teleopoietic worlds as he invented a queer theory we have yet to find, but are invited to glimpse. Among the Muñozian themes this chapbook discusses are hope, utopia, affect, punk rock, heresy, the undercommons, temporality, hauntology, forgetting, loss, ephemera, partage, sense, incommensurability, the event and democracy. In reading Muñoz as a Rogue Theorist, this book borrows many of the gifts we have received (and have yet to receive) from him, marking the force and luminescence of his thought, and insisting upon the rare and precious singularity of his work. Muñoz bequeaths to us a queer studies without condition which it is our duty to foster and to bear as we carry it and him into the unknowable futures of an indiscipline
DO  - 10.21983/P3.0082.1.00
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1004557
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 945783345
ID  - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25538
KW  - José Esteban Muñoz
KW  - queer studies
KW  - rogue theory
KW  - utopia
KW  - memorial
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25538/1/1004557.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25538/1/1004557.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25538/1/1004557.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25538/1/1004557.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/32661
PB  - punctum books
PP  - Brooklyn, NY
PY  - 2014
SN  - 9780692344736
TI  - Queer Insists (for José Esteban Muñoz)null
ER  - 
