Mixing documents, interviews, fiction, theory, poetry, psychiatry
and anthropology, "Polysexuality" became the encyclopedia sexualis
of a continent that is still emerging. Originally conceived as a
special Semiotext(e) issue on homosexuality at the end of the 70s,
"Polysexuality" quickly evolved into a more complex and
iconoclastic project whose intent was to do away with recognized
genders altogether, considered far too limitative. The project
landed somewhere between humor, anarchy, science-fiction, utopia
and apocalypse. In the few years that it took to put it together,
it also evolved from a joyous schizo concept to a darker,
neo-Lacanian elaboration on the impossibility of sexuality. The
tension between the two, occasionally perceptible, is the
theoretical subtext of the issue. Upping the ante on gender
distinctions, "Polysexuality" started by blowing wide open all
sexual classifications, inventing unheard-of categories, regrouping
singular features into often original configurations, like
Corporate Sex, Alimentary Sex, Soft or Violent Sex, Discursive Sex,
Self- Sex, Animal Sex, Child Sex, Morbid Sex, or Sex of the Gaze.
Mixing documents, interviews, fiction, theory, poetry, psychiatry
and anthropology, "Polysexuality" became the encyclopedia sexualis
of a continent that is still emerging. What it displayed in all its
forms could be called, broadly speaking, the Sexuality of Capital.
(Actually the issue being rather hot, it was decided to cool it off
somewhat by only using "capitals" throughout the issue. It was also
the first issue for which we used the computer). The
"Polysexuality" issue was attacked in Congress for its alleged
advocation of animal sex. Includes work by Alain Robbe-Grillet,
Felix Guattari, Paul Verlaine, William S. Burroughs, Georges
Bataille, Pierre Klossowski, Roland Barthes, Paul Virilio, Peter
Lamborn Wilson, and more.
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