For a Collaborative and Interdisciplinary Lexicon of Cultural Agents

The necessity for this book is to be found in the following consideration: that the lover’s discourse is today of an extreme solitude. (Doris Sommer)

This discourse is spoken, perhaps, by thousands of subjects (who knows?) but warranted by no one;

Once a discourse is thus driven by it’s own momentum into the backwater of the „unreal“, exiled from all gregariousness, it has no recourse but to become the site, however exiguous, of an affirmation. That affirmation, is in short, the subject oft he book (..). (Doris Sommer)

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