34. Introduction
Wordplay
by Emmanuel Olunkwa
“We are forever circling the drain.”
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“We are forever circling the drain.”
"Simulation faced the same unceremonious end as its referent."
"Torture and therapy here are not antipodal."
"It’s too easy to be curious, but not optimistic; or optimistic, but not curious."
“The ecological is a sensibility.”
"I like to be both inside and outside."
"My work is about staging and confronting our reality with fiction."
"There's something freeing about not owning every word."
"At this edge of legibility, we can find new language, frameworks, and tools."
"People sometimes thought I cared more about myself than I did."
“Not having moments to grieve is a combination of raced, classed, and gendered positionality.”
“I was already the enemy to a lot of the activists, because I wasn't representing gays in a positive way.”
"They stood around, laughing,
while drugs crumbled in their blood."
On Architecture
Interviews with Dan Graham, Susan Schuppli, and Tom Burr; essays by Dawn Chan, Alexandra Tell, and Quang Truong, with an introduction by Emmanuel Olunkwa.
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.
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.