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Some Thoughts On...
Jokes
Edited by Salvatore Attardo, The Routledge Handbook of Languageand Humor (2017) is a rigorous and rather dry study of funniness. Nº1 •…
Object Of Desire
The Bungalow
My first kiss came in sixth grade, my last year of living in the bungalow. Our family only lived there five years, but it feels like so much changed…
Long Read Interview
John Cameron Mitchell on Androgyny, Empathy and Subversion
I didn’t know I was moving to New York in June 2001, but that’s what I did. Freshly out of the closet, obsessed with movies, and desperate to escape…
Long Read Interview
Legacy Russell on Play, Digital Skins and Becoming Triple
Throughout the years, I followed Legacy Russell on her writing and curating journey that has been truly inspiring. I feel proud when I unexpectedly see a copy of Glitch…
Short Story
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO WIM
1. When my mum met her new boyfriend, who was just called Henk and who would later become my stepfather, God came into our lives, and he never…
Epistolary
Touch Sensitive
P, Two memories flashed me on the subway this morning after physiotherapy. Must’ve been the e-stim for my back pain; excess voltage rushing up my spine…
Long Read Interview
McKenzie Wark on Pleasure, Danger and Revolution
The first task of theory, according to McKenzie Wark, is to stay with the situation. All of her work testifies to the struggle to conceptualise and to live in…
Protagonist of the Erotic
David Cronenberg – Fantasy Made Flesh
In 1996, shortly after his film Crash premiered at the Festival de Cannes to outrage and acclaim in equal numbers, David Cronenberg appeared at the National Film Theatre in London…
Long Read Interview
Lisa Taddeo on Sex and Longing in the USA
In Three Women (2019), author Lisa Taddeo takes as her subject the sexual lives of three women living in the USA. Their desires, affairs and traumas are excavated in…
Musings
Body Doublings and Wonderful Insignificance
In November 2019, I attended an event held at Abrons Arts Center, an institution for performing arts located on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Afterwards, as I…
Long Read Interview
Carlos Motta on Excavating a Queer Historical Past and Imagining its Future
Carlos Motta’s black-and-white photograph Untitled (América Latina) (2016) captures a nude male figure on his knees. He’s facing away from us and while he’s not quite on all fours…
Long Read Interview
Anicka Yi on the Pungent, the Noxious, and the Palpable
Imagine if you could taste a multitude of chemical personas. What if you could inhabit the mind of a cannibal or a hormonal teenager? Thus murmurs a commercial flavourist in…
Long Read Interview
Ieva Misevičiūtė on Tangents and Verticality
When was the last time you felt the ground pulled from your feet, that the concrete seemed liquid and the air was so dense, smelling of candyfloss and jasmine? Ieva…
Long Read Interview
Victor Barragán on Fertile Boredom, Ruffling Expectations and the City of the Free
Dogs wearing slices of bread, bandanas or baby clothes. Grainy snaps of soap operas and nineties television shows. Extreme close-ups of pornos with rough face swaps. Selfies with awkward backgrounds…
Some Thoughts On...
The Rhythm of Thought
fig 1: The Rhythm of Thought University of São Paolo neurolinguist Gilberto Freitas discovered in 2015 that the constellations of neurons, which are engaged when certain ingrained ideas are…
Musings
I Only Eat People I Love
It is often argued that taste has a minimal role in attraction, with other senses factoring in much more immediately. Sight draws us to somebody; scent and quality of voice…
Long Read Interview
Prince Terrence on the After-hours Evolution
Since flocking to New York City in the mid-aughts, Prince Terrence – the artist formerly known as Terry Campbell – went on to play drums and tour the world for…
Long Read Interview
Paola Antonelli on Being an Equal Opportunity Flirt, a Larrosexual and the Eroticism of Urban Typefaces
You would be surprised if you knew what I would wish for if I could have one dream successfully turned into reality. I would love to spend a day…
Musings
Sound Reaction
Why do fingernails scratching against a chalkboard cause most people to wince, or even feel a tickle down their spine? Curious about this phenomenon, D. Lynn Halpern (of Harvard…
Long Read Interview
Ira Sachs on Outsiders, Sex, Compulsion, and Intimacy
Two guys make eye contact. They barely speak before pressing their bodies together. Maybe they’re sitting in a parked car at a cruising site in Memphis. Perhaps they’re dancing…
Long Read Interview
AA Bronson on the Ineffable Presence of the Erotic in His Life and Work
In August 2012 I stopped by a quaint summerhouse on Fire Island Pines to meet AA Bronson, the enigmatic and unmistakable bearded artist whose work I have admired since…
Long Read Interview
Nicolas Provost Shows Us a Beautiful Dark World, Gently Touching on Sensuality and Sexuality
Over the past decade artist and filmmaker Nicolas Provost has carefully shaped a portfolio of works that explore the quirks of human expectation by playing with images from film,…
Encounter
- Roger Ballen and Asger Carlsen
- Kevin Amato
- Emma Amos
- Paola Antonelli
- Tina Barney
- Victor Barragán
- Aneta Bartos
- Manuel Betancourt
- Eve Marie Blazo
- AA Bronson
- Joan Juliet Buck
- Michael Bullock
- John Cameron Mitchell
- Xinyi Cheng
- Katherine Cooper
- Paul Dallas
- Nicholas Elliott
- Dan Fox
- Arnon Grunberg
- Elianna Kan
- Adam Kleinman
- Collin LaFleche
- Deana Lawson
- Whitney Mallett
- Aaron McElroy
- Kira Nova
- Chad Moore
- Alejandro Moreno Jashés
- Monique Moses
- Carlos Motta
- Christian Nyampeta
- Michael Portnoy
- Nicolas Provost
- Nicolas Rapold
- Legacy Russell
- Ira Sachs
- Jansson Stegner
- Dan Sullivan
- Billy Sullivan
- Lisa Taddeo
- Allan Tannenbaum
- Prince Terrence
- Salman Toor
- David Van Der Leer
- McKenzie Wark
- Shen Wei
- Corin Wells
- Anicka Yi
- Lisa Yuskavage
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