12/8/2023 0 Comments Concrete utopia vs abstract![]() The original “Building Back Better” strategy, however, was not a political slogan but the name for a specific approach adopted by the UN in 2015 in the aftermath of natural disasters such as hurricanes, typhoons, or earthquakes, and was used as early as 2006 during the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami relief effort by UN officials. ![]() ![]() This slogan was picked up on immediately by the Canadian Conservative party – their website states that Liberal policy is to “build back better” and contrasts that with their own new motto of “Build Back Stronger” (“Build Back Stronger”). President Joe Biden’s website for his transition, for example, is called, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used the phrases “build back better” and “building back better” a few times in his own speech from the throne (delivered by Governor General Julie Payette) back in September 2020 (Moscrop). In the fall of 2020, American politics dominated the news headlines here in Canada an unavoidable reality, especially given that Canadian politics often takes cues from American campaigns. – José Esteban Muñoz, Cruising Utopia 134 More concretely, this refusal that I describe as queerness is not just homosexuality but the rejection of normal love that keeps a repressive social order in place. Living Beyond the End Times: An Argument for Queer Utopianism
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