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Fugitive Erotics

Black Rites of Breakage & Repair

Muindi Fanuel Muindi

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English
Solutionsforpostmodernliving
20 June 2025
Emerging from dialogues, research, and experiments conducted during BADS_lab 2024 and subsequent Futurhythmachines workshops, Fugitive Erotics 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.

Rejecting the reduction of desire to mere individual longing, it reframes desire as àṣẹ - a force that makes things happen - arising at the crossroads of systemic violence, relational entanglement, and the in-/re-surgences of the flesh.

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.

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.

Fugitive Erotics features cover art by 2024 BADS_lab fellow Letaru Dralega, and an accompanying mix by 2024 BADS_lab fellow Jared Brown (a.k.a. girly
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Imprint:   Solutionsforpostmodernliving
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 12mm
Weight:   204g
ISBN:   9798218658601
Pages:   206
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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