There’s the distributed sensuality and eroticism of the dance floor and all the little breakout spaces and nooks and crannies around it where different sorts of interactions between bodies can happen—and, let’s be real, where things can go wrong, too.
—McKenzie Wark
Issue no.17 of Extra Extra magazine is now out in the world. The magazine, devoted to urban erotic encounters, features 208 pages of long-read interviews, commissioned essays and enchanting art and photography. Welcoming you with a series of erotic short stories, the volume brings together a good 40 creative makers and artists—who we consider some of the most challenging voices of today—each expressing their daring and endearing perspectives on how we live together.
The autumn/winter issue presents the artist of mythic landscapes, Michael Armitage talks with Kashif Sharma Patel about where creative practice is intertwined with his experience of today’s world. Curator Natasha Hoare is in conversation with Tai Shani on intoxicating mythologies; Ancient Greece and sci-fi utopias. And, in our brand new feature titled The Protagonist of the Erotic, Nicholas Elliott explores the libidinal oeuvre of David Cronenberg in all sexual senses.
Also featuring:
Author of Reverse Cowgirl (2020), McKenzie Wark, shares with Hans Demeyer a thought or two on the philosophy of gifts and finding pleasure in New York’s revivalist rave culture. In an interview with Fatos Üstek, riotously colourful designer Bethan Laura Wood speaks on the sensibility of flatness and texture. In the essay, The Burning Bush, a captivating piece on Object-Oriented Ontology (aka OOO), theorist Graham Harman considers fetish objects and innuendo. While filmmaker Amat Escalante faces lust as well as abjection with Caitlin Quinlan. Writer Dan Fox shares love letters, encounter photographer Tina Barney’s iconic series of nudes and Vincent Delbrouck’s still lifes full of juicy papaya fruit and lively teenagers. Before Nam Thi, in the URBEX on Hanoi, uncovers the fierce lust that quietly flows just below the surface of the thousand-year-old city.
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