Subversive Performance in the Age of Human Capital

Acknowledgements
Contents
1 Introduction
2 Art for All
	Art in, as and Outside Everyday Life
	What to Do with the Pieces? Dada and Constructivism as Avant-Garde Paradigms
	Performing the Paradox
	The Ultra-Orthodoxy of the Avant-Garde
	Art Art/Nonart/ Antiart/Unart
	Curating Democracy
	The Negation of Style and the Style of Negation
	The Absolute Commodity
3 Artists in the Social Factory
	Towards an Anti-Humanist Critique
	Instrumentalising the Human
	Mining the General Intellect
	Art as Non-Instrumentalised Creativity
	Inverting Dialectics
	New Divides
	Splitting Human Capital
4 Paradoxes of Democracy
	Liberty Begets Equality Begets Liberty
	Pairings
	Exceptions
	Universal
	Foundation
	Belief
5 Irony and Overidentification
	Liberal Irony
	Historical Irony and Private Irony
	The Thief in the Court of Aristocratic Irony
	(Un)Stuck in Hidden Reverse: Political Irony and Overidentification
	Overproduction in the Social Factory
	Performing Power: Overidentification as a Theatrical Ritual
	Authoring Overidentification
6 Conclusion
Bibliography
Index