Fugitive Erotics

<p>Emerging from dialogues research and experiments conducted during BADS_lab 2024 and subsequent Futurhythmachines workshops <strong><em>Fugitive Erotics</em></strong><em> </em>is a book that explores erotic desire as a dynamic world-making force that resists containment and (re-)creates sensuality and intimacy in the break.</p><p></p><p>Rejecting the reduction of desire to mere individual longing it reframes desire as <strong>àṣẹ </strong>- a force that makes things happen - arising at the crossroads of systemic violence relational entanglement and the in-/re-surgences of the flesh.</p><p></p><p>By tracing desire across three interconnected scales-the sub-molecular molecular and molar - this work shows how domination dismembers bodies and relations while also illuminating practices that transform rupture into aperture.</p><p></p><p>The book also considers how Black electronic dance musics - drum & bass house techno - inherit and extend Afro-diasporic spiritual practices such as Hoodoo and Obeah. Born of urban and digital landscapes these musics channel the break as a principle of resistance and repair mirroring the communal and transcendent power of traditional African rhythms.</p><p><em>Fugitive Erotics</em> features cover art by 2024 BADS_lab fellow <strong>Letaru Dralega</strong> and an accompanying mix by 2024 BADS_lab fellow <strong>Jared Brown (a.k.a. girly***)</strong> that interrogates and extends the book's meditations on Black electronic dance musics.</p>