Contents:
Introduction : Toward an aesthetics of ethics / Walead Beshty
LOCATING ETHICS, SITUATING AESTHETICS. Ethics : An essay on the understanding of evil, 1993 / Alain Badiou
Form-of-life, 1993 / Giorgio Agamben
The distribution of the sensible : Politics and aesthetics, 2000 / Jacques Rancière
Infinitely demanding : Ethics of commitment, politics of resistance, 2007 / Simon Critchley
A Just gaming, 1979 / Jean-François Lyotard and Jean-Loup Thébaud
Relational aesthetics, 1998 / Nicolas Bourriaud
On 'The contemporary', 2009 / Grant Kester
Forensic architecture: Notes from fields and forums / Eyal Weizman
TO CRITICIZE OR TO INTERVENE. Believers and cheaters, 2005 / Keller Easterling
In conversation with Kellie Jones, 1986 / David Hammons
In conversation with Deborah Menaker Rothschild, 1994 / David Hammons
The concerns of art, 1979 / Martha Rosler
An artist's statement, 1992 / Andrea Fraser
Some paradoxes of political art, 2005 / Jacques Rancière
There's no place like home, 2012 / Andrea Fraser
The tail that wags the dog: A lecture for Art Center in Pasadena, not delivered, 2008 / Merlin Carpenter
Market reflexivity after the bioeconomic turn: Andrea Fraser and Merlin Carpenter, 2009 / Isabelle Graw
Letter to the editor, Texte zur Kunst, 2007 / Scorched Earth
Response to Scorched Earth, 2007 / Isabelle Graw
Because therefore, 2009 / Dexter Sinister
Courtesy of Seth Price, 2009 / Seth Price
Full emptiness, 1960 / Lygia Clark
Position and programme, 1966 / Hélio Oiticica
Humanity: Living structure of a biological and cellular architecture, 1971 / Lygia Clark
Useful art works, 1969 / Eduardo Costa
Reflections on Arte Útil, 2012 / Tania Bruguera
Doing art politically: What does this mean?, 2008 / Thomas Hirschhorn
Bic and political commitment, 2009 / Thomas Hirschhorn
Antagonism and relational aesthetics, 2004 / Claire Bishop
Waiting for Godot in New Orleans, 2007 / Paul Chan
TO PRODUCE OR TO REFUSE. For an art against mythology of everyday life, 1979 / Martha Rosler
No problem, 1986 / Martin Kippenberger and Albert Oehlen
July 18-October 16, 1976, Ambiente arte, dal futurismo ad oggi, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, 1983 / Michael Asher
January 15-February 10, 1977, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, 1983 / Michael Asher
On Roman Ondák: Crowd (2004), 2012 / Jens Hoffmann
Ready-made artist and human strike: A few clarifications, 2005 / Claire Fontaine
Why work?, 2010 / Liam Gillick
Politics of art: Contemporary art and the transition to post-democracy, 2010 / Hito Steyerl
Undoing: In conversation with Kathy Halbreich, 2009 / Paul Chan
On the future of art school, 2007 / Frances Stark
I can, I can't, who cares?, 2009 / Jan Verwoert
On this situation (2007): In conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, 2011 / Tino Sehgal
TO REPRESENT, TO MEDIATE OR TO DECEIVE. Shock-photos, 1969 / Roland Barthes
Regarding the pain of others, 2003 / Susan Sontag
The spectator is called to take part, 2008 / Ariella Azoulay
Camera lucida, 1980 / Roland Barthes
Look again: In conversation with Dominic Eichler, 2008 / Wolfgang Tillmans
I march in the parade of liberty but as long as I love you I'm not free, 2007-8 / Sharon Hayes
Towards a new institutional critique: In conversation with T.J. Demos, 2012 / Renzo Martens
Artists come to create beauty and kindness: In conversation with Artur Zmijewski, 2012 / Renzo Martens
On collaboration: In conversation with Sabine Eckmann, 2012 / Sharon Lockhart
Rirkrit Tirabunnng, 1998 / Elizabeth Peyton
Is the curator per definition a political animal?, 2010 / Nicolas Bourriaud, Enrico Lunghi, Paul O'Neill and Beatrix Ruf
How to work better, 1991 / Fischli and Weiss
Take care, 2011 / Anthony Huberman
What about responsibility?, 2013 / Peter Eleey
On the institutional kidnapping of Cady Noland and David Hammons. In conversation with Aaron Moulton, 2006 / Triple Candie
On how to fall with grace
or fall flat on your face, 2006 / Mai Abu ElDahab
Occupational hazards of modern art and museums: A conversation with Khaled Hourani, 2011 / Rasha Salti
Institutional anxieties: Mass MoCA versus Christoph Büchel / Ruba Katrib
In search of the miraculous: In conversation with Achim Borchardt-Hume, 2010 / Walid Raad
