Queer Utopianism & Edie Fake in Temporal Drag
Queer utopia, yknow: still pretty sexy, especially with the publication last year of José Esteban Muñoz’s Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity. I’ll touch briefly on Muñoz here,...
View ArticleAnorexia in temporal drag
So I’ve been thinking more about temporal drag (an idea borrowed from Elizabeth Freeman – see my earlier post), this time in relation to narrative — how narrative crosses time, performing the pull of...
View ArticleYou and Us Make It Reverse: Itty Bitty Titty Committee’s Bad Drag, MEN’s...
One more post on temporal drag and I’ll shut up about it maybe. This time I’ll approach it through counterexample. The 2007 film Itty Bitty Titty Committee does some bad drag. That is, its temporal...
View ArticleThe Oblivion of Tom Cruise
I watched Oblivion a couple of days ago. Haters won’t be able to get past its shortcomings or acknowledge its topical relevance beyond superficial references to drones and the surveillance state. Good...
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