e-flux Journal #138

In this issue, Charles Mudede proposes that Octavia Butler brought us a viable theory of quantum movement. Who is capable of moving through time to haunt other people in other places and other times, and in which direction? Paradoxically—and there are many paradoxes—just as the hurt have been hurt, the dead can only be dead, and are for that reason no longer able to move forward in time to haunt us. We, however, are alive in our own time, and we feel pain on their behalf. It is we who reach out from the future—our present—to haunt them in the past. We are in fact the zombies of the already dead, mirrors of our own regrets, just as we are presently haunted by messengers from a future time warning us to not repeat what they know will not end well… Editorial Editors Who Haunts? Charles Tonderai Mudede There’s No Beginning and There Is No End: Mariah Carey and the Refusal of Time Amelia Groom On Food as an Analytic of the System Samer Frangie Audre Lorde’s Bloody Rush-Hour Revolution Serubiri Moses Observing Kilimanoor Ratheesh T Capitalism and Schismogenesis, Part 1 Sven Lütticken Cracks in Theories of Emancipation under Conditions of War Keti Chukhrov

Editors: Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle

Contributors: Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle, Charles Tonderai Mudede, Amelia Groom, Samer Frangie, Serubiri Moses, Ratheesh T, Sven Lütticken, Keti Chukhrov