Deconstructing the “Middle Class”; Constructing its Transnational History
By Mehita Iqani
A. Ricardo Lopez and Barbara Weinstein (eds.) The Making of the Middle Class: Toward a Transnational History. Duke University Press, 2012. 446pp.
The Art World’s Dark Matter
By Bruce Barber
Gregory Sholette. Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture. Pluto Press, 2011. 240 pp.
Colonial Trains, Postcolonial Tracks
By Nilak Datta
Marian Aguiar. Tracking Modernity: India’s Railway and the Culture of Mobility. University of Minnesota Press, 2011, xxiv +226 pp.
Rethinking Race and Digital Divides
By Lisa Patti
Lisa Nakamura and Peter A. Chow-White, eds. Race After the Internet. Routledge, 2012. 343 pp.
Psycho-History
By Theo Finigan
Joan Wallach Scott. The Fantasy of Feminist History. Duke University Press, 2011. 187pp.
Moving Mountains: Art History for the Neoliberal Era
By Danielle Child
Nato Thompson, ed. Living as Form: Socially Engaged Art from 1991-2011. Creative Time Books and MIT Press, 2012. 280 pp.
“Working in the Space Between”: Understanding Collaboration in Contemporary Artistic Practice
By Sarah E. K. Smith
Grant H. Kester. The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context. Duke University Press, 2011. 309 pp.
No Faith in Form
By Kris Cohen
Claire Bishop. Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship. Verso, 2012. 388 pp.
Middle Games and Possible Communisms
By Ryan Culpepper
Lucio Magri. The Tailor of Ulm: Communism in the Twentieth Century. Trans. Patrick Camiller. Verso, 2011. 434 pp.
Establishing Binaries
By Jeff Heydon
Alberto Toscano. Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea. Verso, 2010. 277 pp.
Inquiry into the Truth of Communism
By Marc James LÉger
Bruno Bosteels. Badiou and Politics. Duke University Press, 2011. 436 pp.