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Utopian Studies, vol.36, no.1, pp.182-203, 2025 (AHCI, Scopus)
This article seeks to reexplore José Esteban Muñoz in a posthumanist light. Deriving energy from eco-art and street art, it establishes a route from queer time to posthuman temporality and materiality, taking Karen Barad’s diffractive methodology as its model. Following a posthuman narrative framework, supported by theoretical developments in new materialisms and various art forms combining human and nonhuman actors, the article discusses how reading Muñoz and Barad through one another can contribute to queer utopianism when aligned with a posthumanist mode. The examples of artistic practices referred to while navigating the fluid terrains of nonlinear temporality and the posthuman queer materiality include eco-artistic endeavors that employ time and earthly bodies as their theme, the gutter art of Stephen Varble, and sticker art as performance, which solicits responses from spectators in Muñoz’s view. The article is thus a lively engagement between Muñoz, Barad, several artists, and the researchers themselves.