Former West: Art and the Contemporary after 1989 (The MIT Press)

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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. Edited By Maria Hlavajova And Simon Sheikh. This Book Has Been Published In The Context Of The Curatorial And Artistic Research Experiment Former West (2008-2016) Developed By Bak, Basis Voor Actuele Kunst, Utrecht And Realized Through Manifold Partnerships With Artists, Theorists, Activists, As Well As Art And Educational Institutions Transnationally.--page 8. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.