Regimes of Invisibility in Contemporary Art, Theory and Culture

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction: Image, Racialization, History

   • Miško Šuvaković, Aneta Stojnić, Marina Gržinić

   Pages 1-9

3. Theoretical-Political Interventions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Racialized Bodies and the Digital (Financial) Mode of Production

      • Marina Gržinić

      Pages 13-28

   3. Politics and Aesthetics of Databases and Forensics

      • Adla Isanović

      Pages 29-44

   4. The Emancipation of Necrocapitalism: Teleological Function of Liberalism and the Optimization of Hegemony

      • Šefik Tatlić

      Pages 45-60

   5. The Impact of Western Society onto the Identity Politics of Sexual and Gender Minorities in Colonial and Post-colonial India

      • Aleksa Milanović

      Pages 61-73

4. Visual and Curatorial Deconstructions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75

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   2. Radical Contemporaneity

      • Aneta Stojnić

      Pages 77-87

   3. Affective Constructions: Image—Racialisation—History

      • Miško Šuvaković

      Pages 89-101

   4. Spiritual Revolutions: Afropean Body Politics and the “Secularity” of the Arts

      • Alanna Lockward

      Pages 103-122

5. Histories Disclosed

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123

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   2. “Contingent monuments:” *Constructions of Publicness in the Fascist Italy Exhibitionary Complex 1920s–1940s

      • Federica Martini

      Pages 125-140

   3. Screened Otherness: A Media Archaeology of the Romani’s Criminalization

      • Andrea Pócsik

      Pages 141-157

   4. The Painting and Its Histories: The Curious Incident of Rembrandt’s Painting Quintus Fabius Maximus

      • Jelena Todorović

      Pages 159-168

6. Back Matter

   Pages 169-173

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This book places a focus on the regimes of in/visibility and representation in Europe and offers an innovative perspective on the topic of global capitalism in relation to questions of race, class, gender and migration, as well as historicization of biopolitics and (de)coloniality. The aim of this volume is to revisit theories of art, new media technology, and aesthetics under the weight of political processes of discrimination, racism, anti-Semitism and new forms of coloniality in order to propose a new dispositive of the ontology and epistemology of the image, of life and capitalism as well as labor and modes of life. This book is firmly embedded in the present moment, when due to rapid and major changes on all levels of political and social reality the need for rearticulation in theoretical, artistic and political practices and rethinking of historical narratives becomes almost tangible.

• capitalism
• race
• gender
• class
• migration
• Europe
• discrimination
• new media
• neoliberalism
• fascism
• racism

“This book discusses new theories of art, aesthetics and media under the weight of very recent political processes of discrimination and racism worldwide. By using interdisciplinary approach and positions such as theory and history of art, cultural studies and critical theory, this publication gives very new insights into strategies of contemporary art and culture today, overlapped with encountered global ideological tensions of global East, West, Nord and South. Papers by eleven internationally renowned scholars are merged into one single ideological frame, from where several questions could be extracted such as what is the role of art in new global political settings? or Does the art have power to be spokesman of disempowered, discriminated, subordinated groups and individuals today? This book is a must read for theoreticians, artist, cultural activists, independent thinkers and journalists.” (Irfan Hošić, University of Bihać, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

• Institute of Fine Arts (IBK), Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Vienna, Austria

  Marina Gržinić

• Faculty of Media and Communications, Singidunum University, Belgrade, Serbia

  Aneta Stojnić

• Faculty of Media and Communications, Singidunum University , Belgrade, Serbia

  Miško Šuvaković

Marina Gržinić (PhD) is a philosopher and artist who lives in Ljubljana and works in Ljubljana and Vienna. She is researcher at the FI SRC SASA (Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Science and Arts) Ljubljana and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.



Aneta Stojnić (PhD) is a Belgrade-born theoretician, artist and curator. She is assistant professor at the Faculty of Media and Communications in Belgrade.


Miško Šuvaković (PhD) is Dean of Faculty for Media and Communications, Singidunum University, Belgrade, and professor of theory of art and media in the PhD program of transdisciplinary humanities and theory of art.



Contributions by: Marina Gržinić, Adla Isanović, Alanna Lockward, Federica Martini, Aleksa Milanović, Andrea Pócsik, Aneta  Stojnić, Miško Šuvaković, Šefik Tatlić, Jelena Todorović

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