…this will be a dense jaunt; like wading through the thick evening bramble of sweaty bush; a flâneur’s journey through contemporary art as response and contribution to collective queer nostalgia: for forms of activism, fucking, and camaraderie that are still right here…so long as we turn around, twice. it’s another tale of the faggots and their friends between revolutions, with the next hopefully turning the golf course into a public sex forest.
the following is a compendium, taking turns from the scholarly to creative writing and reviews, from visual culture, and urban studies, to film theory, porn studies, and debates in archival theory. it’s scope is broad, but it’s grounding is clear: (1) through explorations of contemporary material and visual culture, there arises a queerness in the here and now haunted by mediated iconographies of a queer past, whether pleasurably or anxiously; (2) by recognizing that queerness has had a profound perceptual relationship to forms of urbanism, nostalgia for a queer past is also nostalgia for those urbanisms; (3) using the research instructively, and heeding the call of Paul B. Preciado’s manifesto that it has been “time for architecture to become activism,” case studies are provided as existing or proposed social and physical interventions.
this compendium is meant to be cruised chaotically; the entries hyper-link to themselves, in an ode to Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht’s theory of historiography outlined in his work “In 1926.”
