A permanent state of emergency: a neo-aesthetic view on contemporary politics and artMi¨ko ¦uvakovi describes his experience of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries as a "permanent state of emergency". The author explores this perspective in relation to the politics of time (dialectic historicizing) and the politics of space (geographic difference). By mapping visual arts, performance arts, architecture, music, new media and postmedia arts with contemporary theory, philosophy and aesthetics, he challenges established conceptualizations in modern and contemporary art movements.

Mi¨ko ¦uvakovi (* 1954) received his PhD from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Arts in Belgrade. He has been professor of applied aesthetics since 1996 and is currently dean of the Faculty of Media and Communication, University Singidunum, Belgrade, as well as president of the Society for Aesthetics of Architecture and Visual Arts Serbia.

IntroductionPolitics of Theory1. Theories of ModernismPolitics of Time and Space2. The Return of the Politicalin Contemporary Aesthetics, Philosophy and Art3. Troubles with the Economy, Geography and HistoryThe Social Turn4. Gray Zones Political Economy through Forms of LifeEleven Theses on Feuerbach, Friedman, Hayek and Speculative RealismSocialism / Cold War / Postsocialism5. The Aesthetics of DisruptionPlatforms of Avant-Garde Production in Socialist Yugoslavia and Serbia6. Conceptual ArtThe Yugoslav Case7. Beyond BordersJohn Cage, Cold War Politics and Artistic Experimentation in the Socialist Federal Republic of YugoslaviaMusic Through Aesthetics8. The Phenomenology of the Screen (and / or / as) EventMusical De-Ontologisation9. Aesthetics, Politics and MusicThe Context of Contemporary Critical Theory10. Music and PoliticsThe Reconstruction of Aesthetics and the Contemporary WorldCritical Architecture11. General Theory of IdeologyArchitecture12. Architecture as Cultural PracticeThe Market's Appropriation of the Social or the Ideology of the MultitudePerformance Art13. Technologies of Performance in Performance ArtConcepts and Phenomenological Research14. The Avant-Garde: Performance and DanceIdeologies, Events, Discourses15. Discourses and DanceAn Introduction to the Analysis of the Resistance of Philosophy and Theory towards Dance 16. Theoretical PerformancePerformative KnowledgePerformance Art17. Appropriations of MusicPostmedia: Music 18. Beyond PaperPostmedia and Flexible Art19. Bio ArtThe Prehuman / The Human / The Posthuman20. Simultaneously Always, Now and EverywhereA Real Fiction21. Multiple Political/Sexual BodiesBetween the Public and the Intimate22. Auto-Criticism of SubjectivisationPainting as Postmedia PoliticsExperimental Theory 23. A Claustrophobic EventBare Life24. A NarrativeAn Utterly Ordinary Evening PETIT a* About the Essays* Literature* About the Author