nonsite.org emerges in part out of interest in a set of theoretical topics – the ontology of the work of art, the question of intentionality, the ongoing appeal of different and sometimes competing materialisms – and in part out of opposition to the dominant accounts of those topics.

Today, the various theoretical forms of neoliberalism – from the postmodern to the posthuman, from the new historicism to the new pluralism – have become so pervasive that they are nearly invisible. nonsite.org seeks first to make them visible and then to make them less pervasive. Our goal is to criticize what is and replace it with what we think ought to be.

nonsite.org is an online peer-reviewed quarterly journal of scholarship in the humanities, plus poetry, editorials, reviews, visual art and more. nonsite.org is affiliated with Emory College of Arts and Sciences.

Issue #1: Author/Artist/Audience
We present nonsite’s inaugural issue.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ARTICLES
Sonnenuntergang: On Philippe Parreno’s June 8, 1968, Michael Fried

Neoliberal Aesthetics: Fried, Rancière and the Form of the Photograph, Walter Benn Michaels

Paul Valéry’s Blood Meridian, Or How the Reader became a Writer, Todd Cronan

History and the Work of Art in Sebald’s After Nature, Dorothea von Mücke

Matisse and Picasso: The Redemption and The Fall, Eric Michaud

False Gods: Authority and Picasso’s Early Work, Charles Palermo

REVIEWS
Mysterious Exchange: On Susan Sidlauskas’s Cézanne’s Other: The Portraits of Hortense, Todd Cronan

See www.nonsite.org