Avant-gardes […] are not really about art, whatever some silly art school textbooks might say. Avant-gardes are about media,…

“Avant-gardes […] are not really about art, whatever some silly art school textbooks might say. Avant-gardes are about media, about social relations, about property-forms, but they are only ever incidentally or tactically concerned with art. The most interesting ones around at the moment might be about pharmacology or horticulture or even ‘business models’.”

–McKenzie Wark in “McKenzie Wark | Information-Commodification”, Marvin Jordan (2014)