The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics

"The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics is well suited for libraries working with artists, scholars, curators of contemporary art, and gallery professionals. Summing Up: Recommended." - J. Decker, Rochester Institute of Technology in CHOICE

Randy Martin was Professor and Chair of Art and Public Policy and founding director of the graduate program in Arts Politics at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. He was author of books on the politics of dance, theatre, war, finance, and education.

Introduction Part One: Conceptual Cartographies Introduction 1. On the Zoopolitics of the Voice and the Distinction Between Nature and Culture Ana Mara Ochoa 2. The Aesthetic Subject and the Politics of Speculative Labor Marina Vishmidt 3. Art and the Politics of Time-as-Substance John Roberts 4. The Choreopolitical: Agency in the Age of Control Andr Lepecki 5. Thinking Contradictory Thoughts: On the Convergence of Aesthetic and Social Factors in recent Sociologies of Art Eduardo de la Fuente 6. Becoming Revolutionary: On Russian Suprematism Boris Groys 7. Failure Over Utopia Lisa Le Feuvre 8. What Did You Hear? Another Ten Theses on Militant Sound Investigation Ultra-Red Part Two: Institutional Materialities Introduction 9. Institutional Critique Redux Steve Kurtz 10. Social Turns: In Theory and Across the Arts Shannon Jackson 11. The Politics of Contemporary Curating: A Technological Perspective Joasia Krysa 12. Perverse Joy: The Paradoxes of Censorship Svetlana Mintcheva 13. Art Is Garbage Toby Miller 14. Grass Stages Theater of Precarity in China Mark Driscoll 15. Evangelism and the Gay Movement in Singapore: Witnessing and Confessions Through Masks Keng Sen Ong 16. A Transformative Initiative for Achieving Cultural Equity: Community Arts University Without Walls Marta Moreno Vega 17. Hapticality in the Undercommons, or From Operations Management to Black Ops Stefano Harney Part Three: Modalities of Practice Introduction 18. Charming for the Revolution: Pussy and Other Riots Jack Halberstam 19. The Yes Men Jacques Servin 20. 16 Notes on Collectivism and Dark Matter Gregory Sholette 21. Some Notes About Art, Code and Politics Under Cloudy Empire(s) Ricardo Dominguez 22. The Aesthetics of Algorithmic Experience Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle 23. Computational Aesthetics in the Practices of Art as Politics Patricia Ticiento Clough 24. Toward Participatory Aesthetics Claire Bishop with David Riff and Ekaterina Degot 25. The Politics of Popular Art in India Swati Chattopadhyay Part Four: Making Publics Introduction 26. Living Politics: The Zapatistas Celebrate Their 20th Anniversary Diana Taylor27. Carnival, Radical Humor, and Media Politics Robert Stam 28. Dynamic Encounters and the Benjaminian Aura: Reflections on the New Media, Next Media, and Connectivity Wafaa Bilal 29. Seeking a Theater of Liberation Dudley Cocke 30. By Any Means Necessary Jan Cohen Cruz 31. If You Really Care About Change, Why Devote Your Life to Art and Culture? Reflections of a Cultural Organizer Caron Atlas 32. Pedagogies in the Oakland Projects Suzanne Lacy