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Founded in October 2014 in response to the California Drought and originally published without incentive or affiliation by Eileen Joy and Samuel Ray Jacobson, Keep It Dirty has evolved into a curated, multi-part, multimedia publication project, focused on posthumanist critique and executed through online publication as well as real-life events and initiatives. Contributors include established and emerging scholars across visual, literary, media and communications studies, as well as practitioners in architecture, entertainment, and the fine arts.
Here's a teaser from John Paul Ricco's preface to the republication of "Jacking-Off a Minor Architecture":
“'JACKING-OFF A MINOR ARCHITECTURE' is about the complicated mix of promiscuity, itinerancy, imperceptibility, and illegality that has been the hallmark of that particular erotic aesthesis-in-common that is cruising and anonymous public sex. More specifically, it was about the reinvention of those sexual and erotic practices and spaces, and their deployment against a bio-political regime in the early years of the AIDS pandemic."
"thoughRAVE reflects an ambitious effort on the part of Robert Craig Baum to present philosophy as not merely so much ratiocination, but as a kind of en/action that manifests itself through conversation."
