Call for Submissions: HARDWIRED – Love in the Time of AI

In the age of social media and AI, love is undergoing the next great modern revolution. Through Instagram and OnlyFans, you can show yourself to millions of adoring eyes on social media, becoming the object of universal love. Dating apps have given us the ultimate freedom of choice, the freedom to spend hours curating your perfect potential partner. And if the specter of actually having to meet strangers is too haunting, you can get yourself an AI girlfriend or boyfriend, custom-made to suit your type, someone who will always listen and never challenge you. 
 

In this issue of Quake, we’re investigating love in the digital age. Should you be worried that an algorithm knows your kinks better than you do? AI tools give free rein to our wildest desires, unlocking the ecstasy of hyperreal fantasy—but at what cost? What happens when the soul longs for the machine? 
 

We want writing and art that probes the uncanny space between the virtual and the real self. Send us your essays, fiction, poetry, art, photography, and experimental works that explore the ways we fuck, love, and lust in an era of automation, surveillance, and synthetic pleasure. Make us question what it means to touch and be touched when the flesh is no longer enough.