Volume 1 of my Erosfuturism gospels.
THE CONSTELLATION BEHIND THE WORK
AUDRE LORDE
Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power, collected in Sister Outsider (1984). The foundational account of the erotic as deep feeling, knowledge and power.
LEGACY RUSSELL
Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto (2020). A theory of the glitch as refusal, possibility and resistance to stable categorisation.
BYUNG-CHUL HAN
Non-things: Upheaval in the Lifeworld (English edition, 2022). On information, material attachment and the disappearing world of things.
ANAÏS NIN
The Diary of Anaïs Nin (1931-1974) A record of fantasy, dreams, desire and the private experimentation of possible selves.
DONNA SUMMER
Once Upon a Time (1977) and I Feel Love (1977). Mythic narrative and electronic erotic imagination as rehearsals for another future.
MADONNA
Erotica (1992) album released during the AIDS crisis. Madonna’s Erotica refused to separate pleasure from mortality, holding desire beside grief and death as a defiant insistence on remaining alive.