Includes bibliographical references and index. "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.
Contents:
Between globalization and global warming: transitions in political narratives of the West and the non-West / Dipesh Chakrabarty (in conversation with Boris Buden) -- 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 Stilinovic -- 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 Schollhammer -- 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 / Cuauhtemoc Medina -- When is contemporary art? / Suhail Malik -- Timing the former. Surnam Viet given name Nam / TriĐnh T. Minh-ha -- 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 Andras -- Times of interregnum / Zygmunt Bauman -- Certain resemblances: notes on performance, event, and political images / Sharon Hayes -- Posthuman prehistory / Sven Lutticken -- 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) -- The new rules of algorithmic institutions / 3 continents / Stefano Harney -- 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 -- Witch hunt / Young men (Man kind) / Delaine Le Bas. Work at the bleeding edge of sovereignty / Tung-Hui Hu -- The pixelated revolution / Rabih Mroue -- 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 Vatamanu and Florin Tudor -- Peripheres, housewives, and artists in revolt: notes from the "former East" / Ewa Majewska -- Fascisms: historical, neo, and post / Rastko Mocnik -- Who do we face? / Irit Rogoff -- Prospects. Through (A traves 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 -- Index -- Contributors -- FORMER WEST: (a condensed summary) -- Acknowledgements -- Index -- Witch hunt / Delaine Le Bas.
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