Exform

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Exform

Theory of art Social theory Social and political philosophy

Author: Nicolas Bourriaud

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Language: English

Published by: Verso

Published on: 16th August 2016

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 759 Kb

ISBN: 9781784783815


Leading theorist and art curator Nicolas Bourriaud

Tackles the excluded, the disposable and the nature of waste by looking to the future of art—the exform.

He argues that the great theoretical battles to come will be fought in the realms of ideology, psychoanalysis and art. A realist theory and practice must begin by uncovering the mechanisms that create the distinctions between the productive and unproductive, product and waste, and the included and excluded.

To do this we must go back to the towering theorist of ideology Louis Althusser and examine how ideology conditions political discourse in ways that normalize cultural, racial and economic practices of exclusion.

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