... in search of a drug lord, killing an estimated 120 civilians in the process. Patterson’s detailed, filigreed, and ecstatic mixed media pieces render 72 of those deaths using the aesthetics of reggae’s young spawn, Jamaican dancehall. Patterson’s visual elegies articulate a future for diasporic belonging...

... lesbian erotica that explore sexual domination and submission, as well as pleasure and pain, as ecstatic modes that can release the trauma of sexual violence and racial oppression. Against the haunting presence of both historic and personal traumas that complicate sex, fantasy, and power play within...

... of these two novels, a set of guidelines for finding the myriad intimations of desired (rel)ease in these iconic works. The ecstatic version of this desire in Morrison’s fiction, “otherwise ease,” corresponds to an ultimate assurance of release, safety, and peace in one’s body and being-in-the-world...

..., and popular discourses on the minimal-house-techno spectrum. In contrast to psychoanalytic theories of ecstatic self-shattering and radical transformation (such as jouissance and limit-experience), partygoers seeking rough experiences strive for the more modest pleasures of “coming undone”: stretching...