issue 5

DYNASTY

‘The text is a practice that could be compared to political revolution: the one brings about in the subject what the other introduces into society.’
- Julia Kristeva, Revolution in Poetic Language, 1984

“…in the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do.” 

- Gianni Versace, 1997

infinity; memory; family; continuity

GAY DYNASTY

I grew up an 80s kid. As a provincial kid – in what I like to call Sweden’s Kansas – the bombastic nature of the mid-to-late 80s pop sound offered a confident breath of what the world was and could be.

Sebastian Andersson