e-flux Journal #122

<p>Two women sit at a sidewalk cafe in Manhattan. There are others around: suited bros poring over a spreadsheet, a possible fashion blogger, generally well-dressed white people. The women engage in dialogue and play a game. They talk Platonism, Nietzsche, femmunism, and also traps. The initial point of the game is to decide who has partaken in a particular sexual act, and who has given it or been taken by whom. As they speak, the women, in a dialogue written by McKenzie Wark, create a trans-for-trans space for communication, for a world both part of and separate from the cis one. As one woman tells the other, “They think they know our little secret, but we have information about being that they will never know.” As she says earlier, “We turn the cis gaze back on itself.”</p> <p><strong>Editorial</strong><br /> Editors</p> <p><strong>Trap Metaphysics</strong><br /> McKenzie Wark</p> <p><strong>Inappropriate Gestures: Vogue in Three Acts of Appropriation</strong><br /> Sabel Gavaldon</p> <p><strong>Images Are Masks</strong><br /> Sohrab Hura</p> <p><strong>Cultural Wars and the Politics of Diplomacy</strong><br /> Hanan Toukan</p> <p><strong>from Tournesol</strong><br /> Lynn Xu</p> <p><strong>I Want Something Other Than Time</strong><br /> Lewis Freedman</p> <p><strong>Do Better White People</strong><br /> Peter BD</p> <p><strong>Two Poems</strong><br /> erica kaufman</p> <p><strong>Neither Hopeful nor Pathological: A Theory of South African Art</strong><br /> Serubiri Moses</p> <p><strong>Authoritarianism and the Cybernetic Episteme, or the Progressive Disappearance of Everything on Earth</strong><br /> Irmgard Emmelhainz</p>