[SOLVED] Queer Theory: Temporality and Queer Utopias
1- First page (response to the reading attached ) 275 words minimumRespond to the attached reading from the book -Queer Theory now, chapter 8: Temporality and Queer Utopias, and respond directly to the reading and what you understand or caught your attention, also add your own voice or perception to the response. Use quotations from the reading and think along with the authors and what they mean.2- Second page (response to someone elses person post) 275 words minimum responseRead this person’s post based on the same reading and continue with the conversation, comment about what you like from this person’s post and what you are agree with and explain also from your own voice your perspective about those points.-This weeks reading of M and M really shook things up for me. I was so entrenched in the heteronormative life narrative that I havent noticed how I have been conditioned to follow a specific path, perpetuated and promoted by every institution and person also deeply entrenched in the heteronormative life narrative. I have always thought that the only possible path was to go through school, get a good job so that I can first support myself and eventually support a family, get married, have children, retire, and die. The pressure to conform to this routine is immense, however, I do not want to be controlled by what I think I should do or what everyone else is doing. Looking at queering temporality was useful in identifying how the heteronormative life narrative is advantageous for certain groups of people, promotes consumerism, facilitates societal control, and oppressed groups that do not conform to the model. On a different note, I resonated with Berlants critical present-ness in focusing on what is already not working rather than being stuck in the impasse of the optimistic attachment to a better future. Muñozs opinion on the present being toxic, impoverished, and not enough is in stark opposition to Berlant. Muñoz’s dreaming of new worlds and other ways of being” seem to perfectly demonstrate a type of escapism from the issues of the present moment, the trap that Berlant warns against-
