Jonathan Kemp’s Chemsex Chronicles: The Joyful Embrace of the Queer Collegiate

Episode 8
Us, humans, are usually and paradoxically incapable of feeling what we fear. But what do we fear? The different. But, mostly, the other that reminds us of the inadequacy of our inherited choices. Choices we did not even made. I often talk about the gay trauma that derives from the place of discomfort that oppression leaves. In this episode,however, we will talk about the place of vitality that oppression and death open. And freedom... Kemp’s unpublished book is titled 52 and I have the impression that his relationship with his agent did not survive the discussion of that book in a publishing industry that considers the author not as an artist but as part of a production chain. At a point of the chat he says that his agent thought he depicted Chemsex in too much of a positive light. Such discussion happened in the context of the consolidation of corporate cultural industries, amongst which the publishing industry is fundamental. Aesthetic decisions belong to the author until a marketing specialist decides that that is not the best for profits so without even asking for permission, the author is suddenly left out of his creation. The result is a literary market without literature or with one that poses as such telling half baked truths for an increasingly zombie like population.

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