The Exform

Nicolas Bourriaud, Erik Butler

• Publisher: Verso
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781784783808
• eBook ISBN: 9781784783815
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Political Philosophy

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.

Index

accident, 34, 37–8

and art, 31, 58

and history, 58

and ideal, 26

and materialism, 38

See also chance; encounter

Ackermann, Franz, 48

action, 67–8

actuality, 51–2

Adeagbo, George, 91

advertising, 68

Agamben, Giorgio, 50

aleatory materialism, 11–2, 34, 37

alienation, 4–5, 17, 20, 55

altermodern, 49

Althusser, Louis, xi, 56, 96

biography of, 10–2, 17

and cultural studies, 22

death of, 9

and Deleuze and Guattari, 6

disrepute of, xiii

and dissolution of École Freudienne, 2–4, 26

and Foucault, 16–7

The Future Lasts Forever, 9, 12, 17

and history, 40

and idealism, battle with, 7

on ideology, 44–5, 62, 65–7, 70–1, 73, 80

as killer, xiii, 9–10, 13

and madness, 15

on Marx, 41

on materialism, 18, 21, 34, 37–8, 81

necessity of, xii

new interest in, xiii–xv

on proletariat, 69

on psychoanalysis, 8–9, 63–4

on revolutionary party, 36

on subjectivity, 63

and The Usual Suspects, 14

on world, 37–8

Anatsui, El, 91

Andrée, Salomon, 59

Angel of History, 30, 38–9

angel of the masses, 30–1, 74

anthropology, and history, 57

art:

and accident, 31, 58

Dadaism, 86

as dynamogram, 51

and exclusion, x–xi

and history, 29–30, 34, 41, 56–60, 62

and humanity, 42

and ideal, 32

and idealism, 96

and ideology, 68, 72–3, 80, 97

and labour, 90, 95

Nouveau Réalisme, 54–5

and politics, ix–x, xiv, 43–4, 68

and progress, 34

Proudhon on, 78

public, 69

and realism, x, 79

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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Halftitle Page
• Verso Futures
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• The Exform
• I. The Proletarian Unconscious
• II. The Angel of the Masses
• III. The Realist Project
• Notes
• Index