After the Great Refusal

Essays on Contemporary Art, Its Contradictions and Difficulties

Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen

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

Brave New Avant Garde

Essays on Contemporary Art and Politics

Marc James Léger

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

Art Kettle, The

Sinead Murphy

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

Good Day Today

David Lynch Destabilises The Spectator

Daniel Neofetou

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

Aesthetics & Alienation

Gary Tedman

What is the role of the aesthetic state apparatus?

Neoliberal Undead, The:

Essays on Contemporary Art and Politics

Marc James Léger

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

Color, Facture, Art and Design

Artistic Technique and the Precisions of Human Perception

Iona Singh

How is technique political?

Politics by Other Means

Selected Criticism from Review 31

Houman Barekat
Alison Hugill

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

F.M.R.L.

Footnotes, Mirages, Refrains and Leftovers of Writing Sound

Daniela Cascella

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

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

Boredom and Art

Passions of the Will To Boredom

Julian Jason Haladyn

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

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.