It’s fall so Dean goes on a gallery tour of Manhattan. “How does the body, the figurative painted market body of art from the late 2010s, look now, seven months into the episode? It’s sick, infected, part animal, disassembling. Some Zombie Figuration, at last! Here in these empty white chambers, the disinfected cyborg bodies of art-lovers like us are presented with the perverted, eroticized suffering bodies of artists’ imaginations. At Petzel Uptown, Stefanie Heinze paints mutant, dripping Bellmer-esque forms. Two penises fuck one another in Deleuzean, Guattarian rapture.”