The Lexicon · Genealogy · Contemporary
MUÑOZ, JOSÉ ESTEBAN
1967–2013
Cruising Utopia (The Browse Mode)
Muñoz: utopia is glimpsed, futurally, in fragments of queer aesthetic practice. CoCA's Limbo Browse Mode — like, freely, without commitment, like a studio visit — is a cruising affordance in Muñoz's strict sense. The applicant moves through profiles; the futurity is glimpsed; nothing is consummated; the glimpse is the practice. The institution does not promise arrival. The institution accommodates the glimpse, indefinitely.