Abstraction & Economy: Myths of Growth

Contents
Glossary in Quotes
Exhibition on Sixteen Pages: Introduction
Exhibition on Sixteen Pages
MONEY Setting of Values
Introduction
Abstraction as Critique of Abstraction
Digitizing Art, Money, and Man
Sell Everything, Buy Everything, Kill Everything
There Is No More Abstraction
What’s the Matter with Money? On the Relation between Abstraction and Economic Value
17,000 Iron Bolts Don’t Lie: On Economy, Abstraction, and Truth in Otto Wagner’s Postsparkasse
“Who Paints Abstractly?” A Socioeconomic History of Art after Alexandre Kojève
PROPERTY and DEBT Questions of Rededications
Introduction
Legal Abstractions: Violence and Vulnerability
Concrete Abstraction – Our Common World
From “Second-Order Formalism” toward “Political Geometry”: The Work of Florian Pumhösl
Blacklight
GRID A Symbolic Form
Introduction
Off the Grid: Skipping Rope in between the Abstract and the Concrete, Touching Its Material (Pre)Conditions, (Pre)Attitudes, and Anticipations
Again(st) the Progression Rule: Reflections on the Nexus of Abstraction and Economy in Brazilian Art of the 1960s and 70s and Its Reception
Abstract Painter
Grids, Interfering: Queer Relationality in Works by Lorna Simpson, Andy Warhol, and Sol LeWitt
Always Be Filtering
NATURAL CAPITAL The Fiction of Post-Season
Introduction
Core Absence
Systemic Externalities: On the Socioecological Costs of the Capitalist Mode of Production
Absolut Konkret: Technical and Material Aspects of Early Abstract Film
Image Credits
Acknowledgments
Imprint