Terry Smith, “The Provincialism Problem,” Journal of Art Historiography no. 4 (June 2011): 3, →.
Ibid., 9.
Ibid., 5.
Miwon Kwon, “Response to ‘Questionnaire on “The Contemporary,”’” October no. 130 (Fall 2009): 13–15; Peter Osborne, Anywhere or Not at All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art (London: Verso, 2014), 15–22.
James Elkins, “Response to ‘Questionnaire on “The Contemporary,”’” October no. 130 (Fall 2009): 12.
For a strong critique of this idea, see Suhail Malik and Andrea Phillips, “The Wrong of Contemporary Art: Aesthetics and Political Indeterminacy” in Reading Rancière: Critical Dissensus, ed. Paul Bowman and Richard Stamp (London: Continuum, 2011), 111–28.
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities (London: Verso, 1989).
See Okwui Enwezor, “Mega-Exhibitions and the Antinomies of a Transnational Global Forum,” The Biennial Reader, ed. Marieke van Hal, Solveig Ovstebo, Elena Filipovic (Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2010), 426-45; Caroline A. Jones, “Biennial Culture: A Longer History,” The Biennial Reader, 66–87.
On the contradictory status of “individual freedom” within neoliberal politics, see David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), 41–3.
For Marx’s critique of meritocracy, see Karl Marx, “Critique of the Gotha Programme,” in Karl Marx: Selected Writings, ed. David McLellan, 2nd ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).