“Conceived variously as an epoch, an idea, and an attitude, even a ‘sick’ word, as one contributor puts it in our pages, Enlightenment continues to inspire and rankle. … Artforum invited a group of writers, scholars, and activists — Adrian Piper, Michelle M. Wright, Charles W. Mills, J. M. Bernstein, Boaventura De Sousa Santos, MTL Collective and Jasbir K. Puar, and Sarah Nicole Prickett — to return to Johann Friedrich Zöllner’s question, famously answered by Kant in 1784 and then again by Foucault immediately before his death from AIDS in 1984.”