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Former West: art and the contemporary after 1989
Publisher
BAK
Publication Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Table of Contents
From the Book
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.
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Subjects
Subjects
Art
Art, Modern
Art, Modern -- 21st century
Art -- Political aspects
Art -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century
Art -- Political aspects -- History -- 21st century
Art and history
Art and society
Art and society -- History -- 20th century
Art and society -- History -- 21st century
History
Political aspects
Post-communism
Postcolonialism
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ISBN
9780262533836
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