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Part manifesto, part love-letter to the past and the future, Jos\u00e9 Esteban Mu\u00f1oz argued that the here and now were not enough and issued an urgent call for the revivification of the queer political imagination.<\/p>\n<p>On the anniversary of its original publication, this edition includes two essays that extend and expand the project of\u00a0<em>Cruising Utopia<\/em>, as well as a new foreword by the current editors of Sexual Cultures, the book series he co-founded with Ann Pellegrini 20 years ago. 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