7. Abstract

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Creative Disruption in the Age of Soft Revolutions ix
5. 1. Contemporary Art Does Not Account for That Which Is Taking Place 1
6. 2. Projection and Parallelism 13
7. 3. Art as a Pile: Split and Fragmented Simultaneously 17
8. 4. 1820: Erasmus and Upheaval 21
9. 5. ASAP Futures, Not Infinite Future 35
10. 6. 1948: B. F. Skinner and Counter-Revolution 37
11. 7. Abstract 51
12. 8. 1963: Herman Kahn and Projection 57
13. 9. The Complete Curator 71
14. 10. Maybe It Would Be Better If We Worked in Groups of Three? 79
15. 11. The Return of the Border 87
16. 12. 1974: Volvo and the Mise-en-Scène 91
17. 13. The Experimental Factory 105
18. 14. Nostalgia for the Group 111
19. 15. Why Work? 117
20. Notes 129
21. Index 133