Everything is Permitted; Nothing is Possible: Desire and Labour Under Late Capitalism

Abstract

Everything is Permitted; Nothing is Possible: Desire and Labour Under Late Capitalism is a program curated by Madeline Bogoch for Archive/Counter-Archive. The program was streamable on VUCAVU.com from August 18 - 25, 2021. The films were selected to elicit the complex relationship between capitalism and desire both in terms of the libidinal capture of consumerism, and also the utopian potential Jones refers to. In the same interview, Jones very cautiously speaks of his nostalgia for a bygone era of queerness when “sex was still able to create a space for resistance and individual/collective agency.” Produced across a span of several decades, these films express varying attitudes towards the utopian potential of sexuality against the instrumentalization of desire in neoliberalism, and the politics of both labour and sex.