Issue No 7

Extra Extra n°7 dares to share fantasies. Croatian philosopher Srećko Horvat ponders the radically of love. The director of Pornography and Song From Far Away, Simon Stephens writes with razor precision of trapped lives. Poet Stephen Romer dives into the French Decadent movement, that placed the erotic at its heart. Ari Versluis witnessed the birth of the Gabber scene in 1990s Rotterdam, snapshotting people in a euphoric state of trance. Sam Steverlynck ventures into lustful plosives and sensual labials. And in the URBEX feature, Övül Durmusoglu lingers in the parks of timeless Istanbul, waiting for fabulous divas to appear.