Does it make sense to talk about justifying submissions to an archive as radically inclusive as The People’s Graphic Design Archive? Would asking us to explain our choices contradict PGDA’s deliberately messy democratic nature, where all posts are created equal?
At a time when democracies around the world are literally under siege, invoking such egalitarian ideals may seem grossly disproportionate—or worse, callously flip. It would be if it were not for the fact that an archive identified as the “People’s” unquestionably has politics. It follows that if we understand ‘politics’ as deciding how to make decisions for groups, then every upload is a decision made for the PGDA’s constituency.
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