22. Interview
Gregg Bordowitz
in conversation with Lauren O'Neill-Butler
"I decided to schmear my queer Jewish pinko self in schmaltz and go out and grease up the stage."
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21. Interview
Elizabeth Diller
in conversation with Emmanuel Olunkwa
"I can’t think of architecture as anything other than a performative art form."
20. Essay
Black Bataille
by Aria Dean
“Blackness presents the possibility of a thoroughly anti-Idealist aesthetic and theory of objects.”
19. Essay
Catharsis in Ten Fragments
by Lauren O'Neill-Butler
"I've never understood catharsis."
18. Interview
Michael Taussig
in conversation with Nancy Goldring
“Sacrifice is a pointed instance of dépense, an exquisitely sacred combustion, and one that runs throughout Bataille’s economics.”
17. Interview
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
in conversation with Valerie Midlin
“L’informe comes out of WWII, the atomic bomb, and the Holocaust.”
16. Interview
Matthew Barney
in conversation with Aria Dean
"At the core, I think of my creative language as being rather formless."
15.
Unfinished Work: A Roundtable on L’informe
with Aria Dean, Bruce Hainley, Ruba Katrib, Emmanuel Olunkwa, and Lauren O'Neill-Butler
“It’s easy to recognize specters of Bataille’s thought today, for better and for worse.”
14.
Volume 1: On L'Informe
"Rethinking contemporary aspects of the informe—related to technology, gender, disease, and race—in a Bataillean key."
13.
Andrea Long Chu
in conversation with Emmanuel Olunkwa
“I experienced my transness as a shape the Internet made when it looked at me.”
12.
Amie Barrodale
in conversation with Dawn Chan
“The idea of three-act structure is in my head a lot, destroying my stories before they really begin.”
Volumes
Volume 1
On L’informe
Rethinking contemporary aspects of the informe—related to technology, gender, disease, and race—in a Bataillean key through interviews with Matthew Barney, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, and Michael Taussig; a roundtable featuring Bruce Hainley, Ruba Katrib, and November editors; and essays on Black Bataille and the long shadow of catharsis.
Volume 0
Interviews 1-10
Adrian Piper, Frank B. Wilderson III, Christopher K. Ho, Sarah Schulman, Nell Painter, Ruba Katrib, Mimi Thi Nguyen, Mark Wigley, Howardena Pindell, and Hal Foster.