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Where Does Our Current Obsession For Interactivity Stem From? After The Consumer Society And The Communication Era, Does Art Still Contribute To The Emergence Of A Rational Society? Bourriaud Attempts To Renew Our Approach Toward Contemporary Art By Getting As Close As Possible To The Artists Works, And By Revealing The Principles That Structure Their Thoughts: An Aesthetic Of The Inter-human, Of The Encounter; Of Proximity, Of Resisting Social Formatting.--jacket. Relational Form. Contemporary Artistic Practice And Its Cultural Plan ; Artwork As Social Interstice ; Relational Aesthetics And Random Materialism ; Form And Others' Gaze -- Art Of The 1990s. Participation And Transitivity ; Typology ; Connections And Meetings ; Convivialities And Encounters ; Collaborations And Contracts ; Professional Relations : Clienteles ; How To Occupy A Gallery -- Space-time Exchange Factors. Artworks And Exchanges ; The Subject Of The Artwork ; Space-time Factors In 1990s' Art -- Joint Presence And Availability : The Theoretical Legacy Of Felix Gonzalez-torres. Homosexuality As A Paradigm Of Cohabitation ; Contemporary Forms Of The Monument ; The Criterion Of Co-existence (works And Individuals) ; The Aura Of Artworks Has Shifted Towards Their Public ; Beauty As A Solution? -- Screen Relations. Today's Art And Its Technological Models ; Art And Goods ; The Law Of Relocation ; Technology As An Ideological Model (from Trace To Programme) ; The Camera And The Exhibition ; The Exhibition-set ; Extras ; Post Vcr Art ; Rewind/play/fast Forward ; Towards A Democratisation Of Viewpoints? -- Towards A Policy Of Forms. Cohabitations : Notes On Some Possible Extensions Of A Relational Aesthetics ; Visual Systems ; The Image Is A Moment ; What Artists Show ; The Boundaries Of Individual Subjectivity ; The Engineering Of Intersubjectivity ; An Art With No Effect? ; The Political Development Of Forms ; Rehabilitating Experimentation ; Relational Aesthetics And Constructed Situations ; The Aesthetic Paradigm (félix Guattari And Art) ; Subjectivity Pursued And Produced ; De-naturalising Subjectivity ; Status And Operation Of Subjectivity ; Subjectivization Units ; The Aesthetic Paradigm ; The Critique Of Scientistic Paradigm ; Ritournelle, Symptom And Work ; The Work Of Art As Partial Object ; For An Artistic-ecosophical Practice ; The Behavioural Economy Of Present-day Art. Nicolas Bourriaud ; Translated By Simon Pleasance & Fronza Woods With The Participation Of Mathieu Copeland. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. "Where does our current obsession for interactivity stem from? After the consumer society and the communication era, does art still contribute to the emergence of a rational society? Nicolas Bourriaud attempts to renew our approach toward contemporary art by getting as close as possible to the artists' works, and by revealing the principles that structure their thoughts: an aesthetic of the inter-human, of the encounter; of proximity, of resisting social formatting. The aim of his essay is to produce the tools to enable us to understand the evolution of today's art. With the theories of Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Louis Althusser, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Félix Guattari, and a lot of today's practising creative artists"--Verso of back cover