ART (General) -> Criticism & Theory

After the Great Refusal

Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen

Sep 2018

A Western Marxist, Avant-garde reading of contemporary art.

Brave New Avant Garde

Marc James Léger

Feb 2012

Brave New Avant Garde provides an unexpected exploration of critical strategies for anticapitalist cultural theory and practice.

Art Kettle, The

Sinead Murphy

Mar 2012

Is art a mode of control? Does our desire to create constrain us as effectively as our desire to consume?

Good Day Today

Daniel Neofetou

Dec 2012

This book argues that the films of David Lynch pose a radical challenge to conservative and absolutist ideologies.

Aesthetics & Alienation

Gary Tedman

Jun 2012

What is the role of the aesthetic state apparatus?

Neoliberal Undead, The:

Marc James Léger

May 2013

Charting new directions for cultural theory and practice and offering alternatives to the project of neoliberal class restoration.

Color, Facture, Art and Design

Iona Singh

Oct 2012

How is technique political?

Politics by Other Means

Houman Barekat
Alison Hugill

Jun 2014

A collection of the site's very best reviews on art, culture & theory.

F.M.R.L.

Daniela Cascella

Apr 2015

Ephemeral, F.M.R.L: A collection of fragments and essays recording accidents of hearing and detours of thought in response to the peripheral nature of listening and reading.

Colloquium: Sound Art and Music

Thomas Gardner
Salomé Voegelin

Sep 2016

Declares the relationship between sound art and music “colloquial”: spoken and accessible, rather than locked behind disciplinary boundaries.

Boredom and Art

Julian Jason Haladyn

Oct 2015

Examines the manners in which modern artists use boredom as a form of aesthetic resistance that, at its most positive, is the will to boredom.

Thoughts on an Index Not Freely Given

John Roberts

Aug 2016

In this unprecedented ‘fictive’ construction of the work of five imaginary artists from the 1980s, John Roberts produces an exhilarating theoretical encounter between futures past and futures present.