SEMINARIO MALCOM BULL

Art Politics and Society

1) Understanding the Present

Manuel Castells, La era de la información (3 vols) (1996-8)

http://www.umass.edu/digitalcenter/research/pdfs/JF_NetworkSociety.pdf

http://manovich.net/Informationalism.pdf

Thomas Friedman, El lexus y el olivo (1999)

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Friedman 

http://asrudiancenter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/thomas_l-_friedman-the_lexus_and_the_olive_tree__understanding_globalization-anchor2000.pdf

Michael Hardt and Antoni Negri, Empire (2000) 

http://libcom.org/files/Empire.pdf

http://www.universidadnomada.net/spip.php?article374

Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer (1995 and State of Exception (2003)

http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ucsd/biopolitics/HomoSacer.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Agamben#Homo_Sacer:_Sovereign_Power_and_Bare_Life_.281995.29

Retort, Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War (2005)

http://www.16beavergroup.org/drift/readings/retort_a_powers.pdf

http://sdonline.org/49/afflicted-powers-capital-and-spectacle-in-a-new-age-of-war/

David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism (2005)

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/rsw/research_centres/theory/conf/rg/harvey_a_brief_history_of_neoliberalism.pdf

Slavoj Zizek, Living in the End Times (2010)

Wolfgang Streeck, “The Crises of Democratic Capitalism”, New Left Review, 71 (Sept-Oct 2011) 

http://newleftreview.org/II/71/wolfgang-streeck-the-crises-of-democratic-capitalism

Paul Mason, Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions (2012)

http://www.versobooks.com/books/1075-why-its-kicking-off-everywhere

Manuel Castells, Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age (2012)

2) The Art Market

Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Distinction._Critique_sociale_du_jugement

http://www.unige.ch/fapse/life/livres/alpha/B/Bourdieu_1979_A.html

Julian Stallabrass, Contemporary Art: A Short Introduction

http://anticlimacus.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/contemporary-art-a-very-short-introduction.pdf

Don Thompson, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art

Sara Thornton, Seven Days in the Art World

Noah Horowitz, Art of the Deal: Contemporary Art in a Global Financial Market

Isabelle Graw, High Price: Art Between the Market and Celebrity Culture

Olav Velthuis, Imaginary Economics

http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/o.j.m.velthuis/bestanden/velthuis_imaginary%20currencies.pdf

Dave Hickey, Air Guitar

Arthur C, Danto “The Art World”, Journal of Philosophy 61 (1964) 

https://etr.mome.hu/etr/download.aspx/.../03-03-2-Danto.pdf

Boris Groys, Art Power

http://www.tartumuliseb.net/Art_Power_Boris_Groys.pdf

http://www.artmargins.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=364:review-of-boris-groys-qart-powerq&catid=112:book-reviews&Itemid=104

http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/015_02/2496

https://www.frieze.com/issue/article/art_power/

3) The Social Turn

Claire Bishop, Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship

Claire Bishop ed. Participation

Pablo Helguera, Education for a Socially Engaged Art

Nicolas Bourriaud, Relational Aesthetics

Miwon Kwon, One Place After Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity

Nato Thompson, Living as Form: Socially Engaged Art from 1991-2011

Shannon Jackson, Social Works: Performing Art, Supporting Publics

Grant Kester, The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global
 Context

Grant Kester, Conversation Pieces

Gregory Sholette, Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture