Preface
1 The Blindman; or, How to Visit a World Exhibition
Blind Epistemology
Objects and Encyclopedics
Universal Object Lessons
Sensory Alternatives
2 Desires for the World Picture
Desires
Ars et Feriae
Publics, Infrastructures, Discourse
Objects of Art/Difference
Art in the Age of Its Touristic Reproduction
Architectures and Endings
3 Old World/Biennial Culture
Old Beginnings in Venice
Repetition and Difference
Subjects, Nations, Artists
Biennial Culture
4 New World/Cold War
Hemispheric Rearrangements
Arte Moderna
Difference and Repetition
From Museum to Bienal
Plastic Revolutions
Modulor Moderns
5 Transnational Openings
Tactics of the Trans
Unities/the Differend
When Attitudes Became Norms
Incorporations
6 The Aesthetics of Experience
Tropes of Experience
Encounters and Emblems
Expérience, Erfahrung, and the Experience of Event
Economimesis at the Fair
7 Critical Globalism, in Practice
The Worldly Subject
Global Workings of Art
Practicing Critical Globalism
Notes
Bibliography
Index