{"product_id":"the-exform-9781784783808","title":"The Exform","description":"\u003cb\u003eAuthor of the influential \u003ci\u003eRelational Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e examines the dynamics of ideology \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLeading theorist and art curator Nicolas Bourriaud tackles the excluded, the disposable and the nature of waste by looking to the future of art--the exform. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e He argues that the great theoretical battles to come will be fought in the realms of ideology, psychoanalysis and art. A \"realist\" theory and practice must begin by uncovering the mechanisms that create the distinctions between the productive and unproductive, product and waste, and the included and excluded. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e To do this we must go back to the towering theorist of ideology Louis Althusser and examine how ideology conditions political discourse in ways that normalize cultural, racial and economic practices of exclusion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/16\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781784783808\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.40d","brand":"Nicolas Bourriaud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43180704694453,"sku":"9781784783808","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_12162382-1c1c-4922-b08e-4004d9f73f54.jpg?v=1697518070","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-exform-9781784783808","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}