Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity by José Esteban Muñoz
Published 2009 · 64,350 words · about 7 hours at an average pace
How hard is Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity to read?
Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity scores 71 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it very challenging. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 72 out of 100
- Queer-theory and Marxist vocabulary throughout.
- Sentence structure: 68 out of 100
- Long academic sentences.
- Abstraction: 85 out of 100
- Futurity itself as the object of argument.
- Information density: 72 out of 100
- Dense with Bloch, Marcuse, performance and poetry.
How Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity is regarded
Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity holds a literary regard score of 67 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.