Libidinal Architectures
Open Call for Submissions
The inaugural issue of Image Object Journal responds to the emancipatory potentials of libidinal architectures. From the psychogeographies of the Situationalists to “getting fucked by the beats” in McKenzie Wark’s Raving, theories on the inherent sexual qualities of the built environment emerge in response to the sanitising force of neoliberal modernist styles.
Art, media and architecture are at risk of desexualisation. Queer, trans and minority practices are often excluded from the public sphere because of their non-heteronormative understanding of the relationship between the sexual body and the wider social-political context.
The insistence on catholicism as a foundation of western nationhood by right-wing populist governments aims to sanitise the public sphere in order to conceal the inherent queerness of the ruling class. Unsexy buildings and censored media respond to and propagate this. Critical writing has been as well subsumed into this unsexiness, excluding topics that are too vulgar or too everyday.
This issue argues for libidinal writing and sexy theory, that architecture is made to fuck in and media is made to get fucked by.
Eds.:
Aron Weber
Ethan Geiger