Knowledge Beside Itself: Contemporary Art's Epistemic Politics

by Tom Holert

An examination of contemporary art's recent emphasis on "research" and "knowledge production," and its claims to provide a novel access to "knowledge."

Questioning the role and function of contemporary art in economic and political systems that increasingly manage data and affect, Knowledge Beside Itself delves into the peculiar emphasis placed in recent years, curatorially and institutionally, on such notions as "research"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3943365972
• ISBN13: 9783943365979
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Sternberg Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.3"