[-empyre-] Comment on General Idea

[virginia solomon]

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> GI, I think, establishes an archive of a queer avant-garde (the latter term
> I use because it was theirs, but also because I think what GI set up carries
> many of the problems that we see in the formulation of the avant-garde as a
> concept, problems and contradictions that are important both to the
> avant-garde's being but also as an indicator of the limits of a certain kind
> of understanding under our moment of capital) from Dada and Surrealism
> through to their contemporary moment that formalizes queer sociality, queer
> relationality.
>




-- 
Virginia Solomon
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