{"id":35100,"date":"2019-05-03T13:21:50","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T17:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=35100"},"modified":"2019-05-04T12:12:18","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T16:12:18","slug":"a-transgressive-manifesto-from-a-void","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2019\/05\/a-transgressive-manifesto-from-a-void.html","title":{"rendered":"A Transgressive Manifesto from ‘A Void’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On Holloway Road in north London there’s a black door leading into Ram Books, “a smut emporium with more than 100,000 vintage titles.”<\/em> So said the email, which went on to say: “This astonishing place became A Void magazine’s power centre when we upscaled our priorities to cater for obscene tastes.”<\/em> This led me to poking around the magazine’s website, where I found “The Sick and the Damned: A Manifesto” by The Patients’ Collective. It talks about capitalism, the “memes and myths of Social Darwinism,” and “the normalization of overwork.” Though I dislike the manifesto’s takedown of liberalism, I can’t help being impressed by its seductive intelligence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On Holloway Road in north London there\u2019s a black door leading into Ram Books, \u201ca smut emporium with more than 100,000 vintage titles.\u201d So said the email, which went on to say: \u201cThis astonishing place became A Void magazine\u2019s power centre when we upscaled our priorities to cater for obscene tastes.\u201d This led me to poking around the magazine\u2019s website, where I found \u201cThe Sick and the Damned: A Manifesto\u201d by The Patients’ Collective. It talks about capitalism, the \u201cmemes and myths of Social Darwinism,\u201d and \u201cthe normalization of overwork.\u201d Though I dislike the manifesto\u2019s takedown of liberalism, I can\u2019t help being impressed by its seductive intelligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":35099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,4,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-35100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-literature","8":"category-main","9":"category-news","10":"category-political-culture","11":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/A-VOID-560.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-988","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35100"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35156,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35100\/revisions\/35156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}