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Abstract: CR: The New Centennial Review is devoted to comparative studies of the Americas. The journal’s primary emphasis is on the opening up of the possibilities for a future Americas that does not amount to a mere reiteration of its past. We seek interventions, provocations, and, indeed, insurgencies that release futures for the Americas. In general, CR welcomes work that is inflected, informed, and driven by theoretical and philosophical concerns at the limits of the potentialities for the Americas. Such work may be explicitly concerned with the Americas, or it may be broader, global, and/or genealogical scholarship with ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: “Your nostalgia is killing me!”Or so the words in a 1993 image by the Canadian artist Vincent Chevalier shout in nauseating chartreuse, emphatically outlined in black (Visual AIDS n.d.). Driving the point home, these words appear in an image of a bedroom seen in simplified perspective on one side of a wall that forms a V-shaped triangle. Their color is all the queasier for appearing against a bright orange, red, and blue wallpaper that turns out, on closer inspection, to repeat, as wallpaper pattern, General Idea’s AIDS logo produced in the 1980s as art protest in the AIDS crisis. On that wall, images from the activist art collective Gran Fury appear as posters. The opposing wall of this bedroom has a black and ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: WE ARE ALL PEOPLE LIVING WITH AIDS.1AIDS remains. Of course, AIDS remains. Nevertheless, AIDS remains.WE ARE ALL PEOPLE STILL LIVING WITH AIDS.People living with HIV and AIDS and with access to combination therapies and health care can now, indeed, expect to live as long as anyone HIV-negative.People without access to combination therapies and health care, will, indeed, continue to die as AIDS remains a global health catastrophe.The condom, that constant reminder of the presence of HIV in bodily fluids in sexual contact, may no longer have the same ubiquity as it did before the relative availability of PREP (the medication that prevents the transmission of HIV in bodily fluids during sexual contact). Yet the ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Who knew that surviving a global pandemic would involve consuming copious amounts of television' Like many around the world heeding the warnings of health professionals, I found myself at home throughout 2020 and increasingly victim to the lure of the small screen. Online platforms from Wired to the Washington Post offered encouragement with endless lists of binge-watchable programs for the COVID epidemic.1 Critics compiled new lists and media platforms such as Netflix generated new collections of content to consume when, in the midst of the COVID crisis, George Floyd was murdered by police and Black Lives Matter protests burst into popular consciousness (Spangler 2020). Through the turmoil of the year, I have ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Mourning AIDS is both impossible and necessary—impossible because, as we will see, the world that would allow for the work of mourning to end remains impossible to trust; necessary because without bringing such work to an end, one necessarily succumbs to melancholia or abjection. The predicament has played out rather boisterously from the first unraveling of the quilt or the NAMES Project in 1987 to the demonstrations that surrounded a retrospective of David Wojnarowicz’s work in 2018 (Cascone 2018). Mourning, for those who insist that the time for such has not arrived, signals a shift from political activism to bourgeois sentimentality as well as an abandonment of the suffering masses who are not yet ready to be ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Y a-t-il des digressions dont on ne revient pas'1What was I trying to achieve when I wrote and published my book At Odds with AIDS in the early 1990s' The book targets identity politics for its inability to measure up to the challenges posed by the pandemic. It seeks to conceive of a—political, historical, cultural, existential—resistance, a being-not-at-one, founded in an irreducible and irretrievable nonidentity, a being-not-one, that the virus has both exposed and brought about as it spread regardless of established barriers. By turning against reactive attempts to restore threatened and shattered identities, At Odds with AIDS forms an alliance with the virus, with its erasing of lines of demarcation, crossing ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: How does memory work' What can the art left by dead loved ones teach us about how to live without them' How do we move forward into a future they could not have imagined'Blood/Loss is a memoir about queer kinships and the experiences of outrage, grief, love, and artistic process in the plague years of the 1990s.In 1991, when I was 16, I joined the Los Angeles chapters of Queer Nation and ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power). In public we protested against legislation aimed at dismantling rights for LGBT people, prisoners, and immigrants; and fighting for needle exchange programs, women’s right to safe abortions, safe sex education, hospice funding, and the right to die with dignity. We were arrested fighting ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Since the midnineties, public concern in the United States about the AIDS pandemic has continued to decline, even as the disease continues to spread. . . . One reason, surely, is that AIDS has become less and less a white disease and more and more a disease associated with people of color.though millions are already deadwhat matters is that they didn’t break up the fight before I was able to get to theeWhat remains of AIDS poetry today'AIDS persists. UNAIDS reports that globally 38 million people were living with HIV in 2019, of which 1.7 million were newly infected. Some 690,000 people died from AIDS-related illnesses. That brought the total number of deaths attributable to the disease to somewhere between 25 and ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The work of art produced in the desperate years of the AIDS crisis found itself in a double bind: its work was either not enough—never hard-working enough to be political enough—or too much—always slipping from the work of mourning into the melancholia, excessive, by Freud’s well-known description, and in its very excess, incomplete, not enough once more. But can the closure of this double bind be opened' What would then remain of the work of AIDS art' Or, more than what remains, what becomes of the work of AIDS art now' The photographs of Nan Goldin, one of the most significant contemporary art photographers, and the writings of Cookie Mueller, writer, art critic, actress, style icon, offer, in their interplay ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In a widely circulated online 2017 newsweek article titled “Why America’s South Still Has Such High HIV Rates,” HIV/AIDS researchers Thurka Sangaramoorthy and Joseph B. Richardson revealed startling facts to a nationwide audience regarding current trends in HIV/AIDS infection and death rates in the American South. Sangaramoorthy’s and Richardson’s research shows that the region has a three-pronged challenge: “Southern states have the highest rates of new HIV-positive diagnoses, the highest percentage of people living with HIV, and the lowest rates of survival for those who are HIV-positive” (Sangaramoorthy and Richardson 2017). Lagging behind the rest of the country in terms of health, education, and median ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The so-called problem of contingency, which has been the cause of so much agony to philosophical systems, is their own creation. It is only because of their pure inexorability that whatever slips through their net becomes a mortal enemy, just as the mythical queen cannot rest while there is still someone, far beyond the mountains, the child of the fairy-tale, who is more beautiful than she. There is no system without its residue. From this Kafka prophesies.The law’s scheme: that prisoners construct their prison themselves.He [Josef K.] was too tired to take in all the consequences of the story; they lead him into unaccustomed areas of thought, toward abstract notions. . . . The simple tale had become shapeless; he ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: You go to libraries and find jokes that they’re still using today.1I time my jokes . . . in fact this is the tenth time for most of them.2Most of my comedy is in the spaces.3The idea that drives this study whispers its secret through many common phrases and stories, in which the joke, and even comedy itself, seem always to be placing and spacing themselves in time, or putting into play, as their very condition of possibility, strange economies of retrospect and repetition. For example: we define timing as the secret of all jokes and also claim that jokes require a so-called comic distance. We dismiss some jokes as dated and define comedy itself as tragedy plus time.4 Professional comics used to begin by saying ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The question raised by the title of this essay alludes to the joke collection of the Slovenian philosopher and provocateur Slavoj Žižek, and it reworks (and replays) that book’s parenthetical subtitle—Žižek’s Jokes (Did You Hear the One about Hegel and Negation').1 This volume illustrates the important role that facetious clowning, biting irony and sarcasm, and obscene and outrageous humor play in Žižek’s sprawling lectures and texts as he tells jokes that blur the lines between the postures of philosophical critique and stand-up comedy. In presenting one of the most serious concepts (negation) of the high-minded German dialectical philosopher (Hegel) in the quizzical form of the vernacular joke, we are already ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In the Spring of 2011, Ayesah Adamo, a Columbia University undergraduate, asked if she could interview me about the political funerals that we performed in the later years of ACT UP New York. This interview was for a special edition of the journal Trigger93 that she edited entitled “Flesh.” I had not often spoken about these funerals, not that I had forgotten them, it’s just I was only accustomed to talking about them with friends who had been there. It is difficult to speak about death, even today, beyond the established norms of discourse, and so I welcomed the chance to talk with Ayesah, to see through her eyes, and out to others, something of that time. As members of ACT UP New York in the early 1990s we took ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
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