e-flux Journal #140

The illogic of exclusion and exception is seductive. Perhaps we will all know ourselves better when we advertise our own place in the world by taking sides with regimes that masquerade as fixed identities and project illusory strength while actually being irreparably fragmented from within, just like we all are. The oppressed, on the other hand, know that a much larger struggle can only be sustained by distinguishing faithful from false witnesses among their own ranks as well as the enemy’s. True identity is forged by how we choose to bear witness, by what endures and grows in meaning as it is transmitted. Editorial Editors Who Pierced the Eyes of Assum Preto? Thotti Afro Asia and the Ethics of Friendship Joan Kee in conversation with Serubiri Moses The Critique of Form (excerpted from Anteaesthetics) Rizvana Bradley From Tragic Mulatto to Cinematic Blackout Katherine C. M. Adams Hija de Perra: Writings from a Poor, Aspirational, Sudaca, Third World Perspective Julia Eilers Smith Filthy Interpretations: How “Queer Theory” Colonizes Our Poor, Aspirational, South American, Third World Context … Hija de Perra Precarious Solidarities: Artists for Democracy in Historical Perspective, Part 1 David Morris Critical (Auto) Theory McKenzie Wark

Editors: Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle

Contributors: Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle, Thotti, Joan Kee, Serubiri Moses, Rizvana Bradley, Katherine C. M. Adams, Julia Eilers Smith, Hija de Perra, David Morris, McKenzie Wark