What Remains Beautiful
OBSESSION: 001 Eros understood that desire becomes most dangerous when treated seriously. Not hidden behind a brown wrapper. Not reduced to pornography, romance, or medical diagrams. Desire as history, politics, art, violence, comedy, commerce, and the private disease shared by everyone. We are currently in the process of creating a standalone publication in response to Eros . It will not be a facsimile, a revival, or an embalmed exercise in mid-century elegance. We have no intention of continuing it beyond this single edition. We want to begin where Eros left off and discover what remains when its appetite is dragged through the present. The publication will move through pleasure and punishment, beauty and obscenity, flesh and commerce, the machinery built around desire and the shame manufactured to keep it profitable. Participation will be by invitation only. There will be no open call for submissions. We are choosing the artists and writers ourselves, assembling the work according...