Product Description: Today, more than at any other point in history, we are aware of the cultural impact of global processes. This has created new possibilities for the development of a cosmopolitan culture but, at the same time, it has created new risks and anxieties linked to immigration and the accommodation of strangers...read more

Product Description: Philosopher, economist and psychoanalyst Cornelius Castoriadis (1922-1997) eschewed notebooks, preferring the backs of ration cards or conference programs, reproduced here.

Product Description: This volume documents Hou Hanru's PHoto España 2011 exhibition gathering works in both new and old media relating to photography as a model of perception. Artists and photographers include Hamra Abbas, Adel Abdessemed Du Zhenjun, Thierry Fontaine, Shaun Gladwell, Jiang Zhi, Dinh Q Lê, Wangechi Mutu, Pak Sheung-Chuen, Dan Perjovschi, Shahzia Sikander, Nedko & Dimitar Solakov, Sun Xun Tsang, Kin-Wha and Wong Hoycheong...read more

Product Description: Founded in Melbourne in 1972, the Australian architectural firm Denton Corker Marshall is one of the most important actors in the Pacific region. DCM is represented in East Asia as well as the Near East and Europe with numerous structures and also has offices in Jakarta and London...read more

Product Description: The political responsibility of artists in a globalized society is debated in this collection of articles by authors from Africa, Australia, South America, Europe, and Scandinavia. Bemoaning the competition for tourist dollars among the world's great cities and the commodification of cultural artifacts, these artists propose real and imagined places where art might resist capitalism, such as failed urban developments, among refugees, and in rural outposts...read more

Product Description: Based on a groundbreaking international conference held in Sydney, Australia, under the auspices of Artspace, this anthology explores the legacy and the future of multicultural discourses for the arts. Debates on art, culture, and theory are situated within the context of globalization...read more

Product Description: This challenging look at the state of modern art seeks to answer questions such as What is art? and What is the place of art today? while explaining how modern art is produced and how audiences' relationships with art and artists have changed...read more

Product Description: This important book traces the impact of the movement of people, ideas and capital across the globe.

Product Description: Concerning itself with the radical instability of contemporary experience, this book traces this theme by focusing on the representation of exile in John Berger's writing. Exile is taken to signify not just the consequence of political banishment but also to refer to the dislocations of peoples by economic pressures and the redefinition of values and norms through cultural transformation...read more