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GROYS, BORIS
b. 1947
The New (Anti-Anti-Ness)
Groys: the new is not the unprecedented but the valuably-different-against-an-archive. CoCA's archive is the GAI; the new is whatever the alphabetical sequence next admits. We do not chase newness; we file it. Anti-Anti-Ness (§1.2.5) is the Groysian recognition that destruction is no longer new. Construction is the only remaining innovation, and it requires shelving.