Lisa Robertson’s Archive, Singular and Collective

Abstract

They were resisting the totalizing movement of capital and its usurpation of both individual and collective time, but they were resisting by widely varying means: Marxist class critique, avant-garde experiment, conceptual rigor, feminist rejections of gendered hierarchy, woman-centred editing practices, queer identity explosions, post-colonial and anti-racist actions. Some used images, or alcohol, or archives, or housing, or sex as the resistant material, experiencing these inseparably from language. Myriad groupings of identifications and practices ripped through and animated the collective fabric. [...] Resistance became a form of life, a form of lived coexistence. This form of life included the structure of group conversations, the improvised ways decisions were made and tasks were allotted, Lisa Robertson’s Archive, Singular and Collective