Avid Readers 5:—is the Crisis: Lecture: Sinister Anonymity in the Sexual and Linguistic Fields

Editors: Nicolas Jenkins, Jack Henry Fisher, Alan Smart, Michal B Ron, Hannah Brükmuller, Samo Tomsic, and Nat Pyper Publisher: Other Forms (2021) Contributors: Karl Marx, Judith Butler, Anne Carson, J.P. Nettl, Frédéric Lordon, Jacques Lacan, Paul Preciado, Homer, Barbara Cassin, José Carlos Mariátegui (translated from Spanish by Erin Maria Madarieta), Thomas S. Mullaney, and José Esteban Muñoz Avid Readers 5 considers, through a compressed sequence of archival reproductions, the fuzzy impasses and technical openings of sexual identity and non-identity in the ancient and modern worlds. Following a roughly contiguous line of thought about gender and anonymity in revolutionary contexts, the publication “concludes” in the utopian horizon of a nonbinary communism of the incommensurable (per José Esteban Muñoz). Encounter along the way: feats of typing in Maoist China, the girlfriend experience of contemporary labor, the signifier of jouissance, and tender sex in hollow caves. And we are a