e-flux Journal #54

<p>Spring is here, so we are naturally thinking about sex all the time. It was a busy winter with many personal calamities and meltdowns, and this only makes now a better time to think about sex. Big beautiful interspecies sex. Instrumentalized sex. Makeup sex and breakup sex. Overman sex and that business with the eunuch. Tender Marvin Gaye sex and also the weird stuff. Sex as the symbolic drainage area for desires that exceed and escape the society, but also as the visceral pelvic thrust behind those desires that glue the whole contraption together when it is actually hopelessly falling apart. Because we all know the fear of sex, and most of us have spent too much time close to a military or imperial or populist regime bent on regulating or functionalizing it. Keep it minimal, because this kind of intimacy mashes subject and object relations together in a way that makes governance confusing if not impossible…</p> <p><b>Editorial </b><br /> Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle</p> <p><b>Sexuality in a Non-Libidinal Economy</b><br /> Keti Chukhrov</p> <p><b>Poetics of Entropy: The Post-Suprematist Art of Mladen Stilinović</b><br /> Boris Groys</p> <p><b>Gentleman Next Door: Antonio G. Lauer, a.k.a. Tomislav Gotovac, and the Man Undressed in Times of Socialism</b><br /> Ana Ofak</p> <p><b>Hermes on the Hudson: Notes on Media Theory after Snowden</b><br /> Geert Lovink</p> <p><b>Repetition-Compulsion: World-Historical Rhythms in Architecture</b><br /> Ross Wolfe</p> <p><b>Index XXVI: Red</b><br /> Walid Raad</p> <p><b>Genres of Capitalism, Part II</b><br /> Stephen Squibb</p> <p><b>Response to Grant Kester’s “The Device Laid Bare”</b><br /> E. C. Feiss</p>