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1. Interview

Adrian Piper

in conversation with Lauren O’Neill-Butler

“When living honorably is more important than staying alive, you’re ready to fight effectively for what you believe in.”

2. Interview

Frank B. Wilderson III

in conversation with Aria Dean

“The essential antagonism is not between the workers and bosses but between the Humans and the Blacks.”

3. Interview

Christopher K. Ho

in conversation with Dawn Chan

“The paradigmatic Hongkonger, especially from the generations between 1949 and 1997, is transnational and neoliberal.”

4. Interview

Sarah Schulman

in conversation with Emmanuel Olunkwa

“Historically, queer women have been on the front lines of every progressive movement, but not always openly.”

5. Interview

Nell Painter

in conversation with Lauren O'Neill-Butler

“Things improving for old women artists is like things improving for Black Americans. Things improve. But things stay shitty.”

6. Interview

Ruba Katrib

in conversation with Dawn Chan

“The modern manifestation of the museum has its origins as a colonial and disciplining institution.”

7. Interview

Mimi Thi Nguyen

in conversation with Lauren O’Neill-Butler

“One mantra in particular strikes me in this moment—and it is from John Waters's Female Trouble—‘crime is beauty.’”

8. Interview

Mark Wigley

in conversation with Emmanuel Olunkwa

“Architecture is not about the wellbeing of humans at all. It doesn't simply house the human, it remakes the human.”

9. Interview

Howardena Pindell

in conversation with Lauren O’Neill-Butler

“There will be gradual changes in the art world, but the arts are often the last to change.”

10. Interview

Hal Foster

in conversation with Aria Dean

“Even though I don't see criticism as art, I don't see it as secondary to art. I see it as a practice parallel to it.”

11. Interview

John Akomfrah

in conversation with Emmanuel Olunkwa

“We don't need to go beyond blackness. It's not a before and after question.”

12. Interview

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.”

13. Interview

Andrea Long Chu

in conversation with Emmanuel Olunkwa

“I experienced my transness as a shape the Internet made when it looked at me.”

14. Introduction

Volume 1: On L'Informe

"Rethinking contemporary aspects of the informe—related to technology, gender, disease, and race—in a Bataillean key."

15. Roundtable

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.”

16. Interview

Matthew Barney

in conversation with Aria Dean

"At the core, I think of my creative language as being rather formless."

17. Interview

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

in conversation with Valerie Midlin

“L’informe comes out of WWII, the atomic bomb, and the Holocaust.”

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.”

19. Essay

Catharsis in Ten Fragments

by Lauren O'Neill-Butler

"I've never understood catharsis."

20. Essay

Black Bataille

by Aria Dean

“Blackness presents the possibility of a thoroughly anti-Idealist aesthetic and theory of objects.”

21. Interview

Elizabeth Diller

in conversation with Emmanuel Olunkwa

"I can’t think of architecture as anything other than a performative art form."

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."

23. Roundtable

Knobkerry Roundtable

with Charles Daniel Dawson, Kyle Dancewicz, Carmen Hammons, Joanne Robinson Hill, Svetlana Kitto, Kathleen McDonnell, Seret Scott, and Ken Tisa

“The store was about conversations between worlds and how those conversations meshed together and only Sara could do that.”

24. Interview

Dodie Bellamy

in conversation with Lauren O'Neill-Butler

“My attention tends to focus on the micro, on what’s right in front of my face—be it a memory or on a screen or some fragile blip of the ‘real’—and I let associations spiral out from there.”

25. Roundtable

Anarchic Archive: Godzilla Roundtable

with Tomie Arai, Dawn Chan, Howie Chen, Ricky Ruihong Li, Lauren O'Neill-Butler, and Paul Pfeiffer

“‘Asian American’ identity may be a construction but the social and psychic life of racialized people in America is very real.”

26. Interview

Sianne Ngai

in conversation with Alec Recinos

"We could say that the entire enterprise of art has a gimmick problem."

27. Interview

Hito Steyerl

in conversation with Emmanuel Olunkwa

“If I ever reached a milestone I would run away in horror.”

28. Essay

Three Poems on Art

by Yxta Maya Murray

"They stood around, laughing,
while drugs crumbled in their blood."

29. Interview

Dennis Cooper

in conversation with Ryan Mangione

“I was already the enemy to a lot of the activists, because I wasn't representing gays in a positive way.”

30. Roundtable

Love and Rage: A Roundtable on bell hooks

with Lyle Ashton Harris, Dawn Chan, Ricky Ruihong Li, Parissah Lin, Darla Migan, Emmanuel Olunkwa, and Aliza Shvarts

“Not having moments to grieve is a combination of raced, classed, and gendered positionality.”

31. Interview

Lena Dunham

in conversation with Emmanuel Olunkwa

"People sometimes thought I cared more about myself than I did."

32. Essay

Abortions Will Not Let You Forget

by Aliza Shvarts

"At this edge of legibility, we can find new language, frameworks, and tools."

33. Interview

K Allado-McDowell

in conversation with Dawn Chan

"There's something freeing about not owning every word."

34. Introduction

Wordplay

by Emmanuel Olunkwa

“We are forever circling the drain.”

35. Essay

Our Most Haunted Place

by Dawn Chan

"Simulation faced the same unceremonious end as its referent."

36. Essay

The Environmental Self

by Alexandra Tell

"Torture and therapy here are not antipodal."

37. Essay

Where the Skin Ends

by Quang Truong

"It’s too easy to be curious, but not optimistic; or optimistic, but not curious."

38. Interview

Susan Schuppli

in conversation with Ricky Ruihong Li

“The ecological is a sensibility.”

39. Interview

Tom Burr

in conversation with Blake Oetting

"I like to be both inside and outside."

40. Interview

Dan Graham

in conversation with Emmanuel Olunkwa

"My work is about staging and confronting our reality with fiction."

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