A 10th anniversary edition of this field defining work—an intellectual inspiration for a generation of LGBTQ scholars Cruising Utopia arrived in 2009 to insist that queerness must be reimagined as a futurity-bound phenomenon, an insistence on the potentiality of another world that would crack open the pragmatic present. Part manifesto, part love-letter to the past and the futur...(展开全部)

The LGBT agenda for too long has been dominated by pragmatic issues like same-sex marriage and gays in the military. It has been stifled by this myopic focus on the present, which is short-sighted and assimilationist. "Cruising Utopia" seeks to break the present stagnancy by cruising ahead. Drawing on the work of Ernest Bloch, Jose Esteban Munoz recalls the queer past for guida...(展开全部)

And Then There Were None is a detective fiction novel by Agatha Christie. In the novel, ten people, who have previously been complicit in the deaths of others but have escaped notice or punishment, are tricked into coming onto an island. Even though the guests are the only people on the island, they are all mysteriously murdered one by one, in a manner paralleling, inexorably a...(展开全部)

First there were ten--a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a private island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an eccentric millionaire unkonwn to all of them, is nowhere to be found. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they're unwilling to reveal--and a secret that will seal their fate. For each has been marked for murder. One by one...(展开全部)

First there were ten--a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a private island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an eccentric millionaire unkonwn to all of them, is nowhere to be found. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they're unwilling to reveal--and a secret that will seal their fate. For each has been marked for murder. One by one...(展开全部)

“A genuinely innovative contribution to philosophical accounts of subjectivity and temporality. Romano develops what he calls an ‘evential hermeneutics’ that takes as its starting point the life-changing events that upend our world. He studies the structure of these events in terms of the genuine change and novelty that they open up, distinguishing them from mere occurrences, w...(展开全部)

In "The Feeling of Kinship", David L. Eng investigates the emergence of 'queer liberalism', the empowerment of certain gays and lesbians in the United States economically through an increasingly visible and mass-mediated queer consumer lifestyle, and politically through legal protection of rights to privacy and intimacy. Eng argues that in our 'colorblind' age the emergence of ...(展开全部)

乔治·弗兰克尔出生在维也纳，在那里他学习了哲学和精神分析。纳粹入侵奥地利，迫使他迁居并最终定居伦敦。在伦敦，作者从事了四十多年的精神分析工作。作为精神分析师，他的工作吸引了众多的追随者，这些追随者认为他的方法是对精神分析疗法和人类了解潜意识的一个重大突破，为人类理解潜意识打开了一个新的窗口。 乔治·弗兰克尔在许多大学教课，他主讲过精神分析、哲学、史前文化和建筑心理学。在他众多的著述中，《性革命的失败》和《未知的自我》尤其被广泛关注。在勤于著述、讲学和作精神分析师工作的同时，弗兰克尔还特别关注社会神经症的问题，他决心要找到使得同家和社会出现非理性，并且常常是毁灭性行为的原因。他确信，精神分析的最大贡献是它在社会治疗上的应用。 乔冶·弗兰克尔的作品已经被翻译成多种文字。

The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternativesoto conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that has extensively theorized hegemony but paid little attention to counter-hegemony. Judith Halberstam proposes ...(展开全部)