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madoko's review against another edition
4.0
going from an introduction to althusser over definition of ideology to string it into a line of different ages of art from modernism and to today in a brilliant manner. Must read for everyone interested in sociopolitical art critique
martinhm's review
4.0
It takes Nicolas Bourriaud a good forty pages before explaining what this book is about, and writes instead on how Althusser stormed into a talk by Lacan. But those forty pages leading up to the clarification are still great. This book is simply about ideology, art and waste. It's about how ideology, like the unconscious, works "behind our backs" to create a false (idea of) reality. Ideology thereby generates exclusion zones; things, people or waste that simply cannot be assimilated to this false reality: the undocumented worker, the madman, the chronically unemployed, or production refuse such as CO2 and plastic - essentially, the excess of materialism which does not fit into the ideal bourgeoise ideology. For Bourriaud, as I understand, art serves as a "point of contact", a socket or a plug, in the process of exclusion and inclusion - he calls this the exform.
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