Trading Futures: Queer Theory’s Anti-Anti-Relational Turn
QUEER THEORY'S ANTI-ANTI RELATIONAL TURN Drew Daniel Jose Esteban Munozs new book fights for the future of a field— queer theory—arguably defined by the differences between two works from its recent past: Mu noz's own Disidentif cations: Queers of Color and the Performance of Pol itics (1999) and Lee Edelman's No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (2004).' Insofar as Cruising Utopia marries an argument of crankily counterintuitive original ity to whipsmart readings of both familiar and underground queer artworks, it more than succeeds in living up to the high standard set by his previous book. Just as Dis identifications broke with then-pre vailing critical orthodoxies of gay affirmation and belonging in its evocation of the anti-identitarian