Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. After the Breakdown: 1
6. Section I: Systems Aesthetics to Systems Politics
7. 1. Jack Burnham Redux: 31
8. 2. The Artist as “Weatherman 55
9. 3. Desalineación: 78
10. Section II: Nervous Interfaces
11. 4. The Irresolutions of Charles Gaines 103
12. 5. Light and Space as Institutional Cri 125
13. 6. One among Many: 148
14. Section III: The Contemporary Art World Described as a System
15. 7. Abstraction, Dispersion, Deflation, and Noise: 173
16. 8. Aesthetic Action as Planetary Praxis: 192
17. 9. Mapping, SEA STATE, and State Violence on the Shores of Singapore 213
18. 10. Toward Infrastructure Art: 235
19. Selected Bibliography 261
20. Contributors 277
21. Index 281