Former West: art and the contemporary after 1989

Untitled / Aernout Mik

Preface in place of a postscript / Maria Hlavajova

Editors' note: Formering the West

Art, 1989, the contemporary. An artist who cannot speak English is no artist / Mladen Stilinović

A formalism as wishful as it was dialectical / Peter Osborne

The contemporary condition: postmodernity, post-socialism, postcolonialism / Boris Groys

Place-making in the "wrong place": contemporary art and the postcolonial condition / Okwui Enwezor

Transformations in the former West / Georg Schöllhammer

The end of contemporary art (as we knew it) / Marion von Osten

Perestroika timeline / Chto Delat?/What is to be done?

Looking for the meaning of "decolonial gesture" / Walter D. Mignolo

A short glossary of the present / Rasha Salti

In what does the "formerness" of the West reside?: an itinerary of the contemporary from societies in transition / Nancy Adajania

Contemp(t)orary: eleven theses / Cuauhtémoc Medina

When is contemporary art? / Suhail Malik

Timing the former. Surnam Viet given name Nam / Trịnh T. Minh-hà

A time machine theory of history / McKenzie Wark

Theorizing today: the post-Soviet condition / Susan Buck-Morss

The communist horizon / Jodi Dean

Soviet communism and the paradox of alienation / Artemy Magun

Homage to the half-truth. Renationalization and artistic imagination in Hungary: a case study / Edit András

Times of interregnum / Zygmunt Bauman

Certain resemblances: notes on performance, event, and political images / Sharon Hayes

Posthuman prehistory / Sven Lütticken

Fifty years of African decolonization / Achille Mbembe

Between globalization and global warming: transitions in political narratives of the West and the non-West / Dipesh Chakrabarty (in conversation with Boris Buden).

Understructures. 3 continents / Nástio Mosquito

Between not everything and not nothing: cuts toward infrastructural critique / Marina Vishmidt

Extrastatecraft / Keller Easterling

Arcana Mathematica Imperii: the evolution of Western computational norms / Matteo Pasquinelli

The West and bordering / Naoki Sakai

Memories of development / Paulo Tavares

Petro-subjectivity / Brett Bloom

Political plastic / Eyal Weizman (in conversation with Lucy Lopez)

After and beyond the West: resonances of the common / Sandro Mezzadra

A tank on a pedestal: museums in an age of planetary civil war / Hito Steyerl

"Europe looked in the mirror and saw the world. Beyond that lay nothing" / Charles Esche

There is a West. It could be the North. Either way, it is real / Vijay Prashad

Toward another political economy? Nature meets itself in the stomach of the predators / Andreas Siekmann

Creating a distance from the Western-centric political imagination / Boaventura de Sousa Santos

Whose limits?: the generational continuum (1972-2015) / Pedro Neves Marques

Feminism and the politics of the commons / Silvia Federici

Unproductive circulation, excessive consumption / Angela Mitropoulos

Who is building the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi? / Gulf Labor Coalition

What is an art worker?: five theses on the complexity of a struggle / Angela Dimitrakaki

Autonomy and precarization: (neo)liberal entanglements of labor and care in the former West / Isabell Lorey

Dividual, derivatives, debts / Gerald Raunig

The new rules of algorithmic institutions / Stefano Harney.

Power and truth (after the Internet). Young men (Man kind) / Marlene Dumas

Work at the bleeding edge of sovereignty / Tung-Hui Hu

The pixelated revolution / Rabih Mroué

From islands to oceans to clouds: stateless subjects and planetary publics in the anthropocene / Laura McLean

Crisis, crisis, crisis, or sovereignty and networks / Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

A single swing of the shovel: former West proxies / Boaz Levin and Vera Tollmann

Computing the law: searching for justice / Susan Schuppli

Constructions of the "we." Foreigners out

-Please love Austria /

Christoph Schlingensief

Modes of assembly: art, the people, and the state / Dave Beech

A missing people / Rosi Braidotti (in conversation with Maria Hlavajova)

Where is the "former" in neocoloniality?: complications of diversity-led inclusion in the arts and the dumbing down of cosmopolitical discourse / Andrea Phillips

Another we: invading the institution / Francesco Salvini

"Great" Britain in the former West / Nina Power

Appointment with history / Mona Vătămanu and Florin Tudor

Peripheres, housewives, and artists in revolt: notes from the "former East" / Ewa Majewska

Fascisms: historical, neo, and post / Rastko Močnik

Who do we face? / Irit Rogoff

Prospects. Through (A través de) / Teresa Margolles

No future: the space of capital and the time of dying / Sami Khatib

West or Rojava: toward democratic modernity / Dilar Dirik

Collective dictionary: political / Campus in Camps

Reproduction as paradigm: elements for a feminist political economy / Federica Giardini and Anna Simone

World-making as commitment / Jonas Staal (in conversation with Maria Hlavajova)

Performing the institution "as if it were possible" / Athena Athanasiou

Live your models: self-orientation and social form / Brian Holmes

No present / Mark Fisher

Visual interventions

Contributors

FORMER WEST: (a condensed summary)

Acknowledgements

Index

Witch hunt / Delaine Le Bas.