In the aftermath of the 2016 US elections, Brexit, and a global upsurge of nationalist populism, it is evident that the delirium and the crisis of neoliberal capitalism is now the delirium and crisis of liberal democracy and its culture. And though capitalist crisis does not begin within art, art can reflect and amplify its effects, to positive and negative ends.In this follow-up to his influential 2010 book, Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture, Sholette engages in critical dialogue with artists' collectives, counter-institutions, and activist groups to offer an insightful, firsthand account of the relationship between politics and art in neoliberal society. Sholette lays out clear examples of art's deep involvement in capitalism: the dizzying prices achieved by artists who pander to the financial elite, the proliferation of museums that contribute to global competition between cities in order to attract capital, and the strange relationship between art and rampant gentrification that restructures the urban landscape.With a preface by noted author Lucy R. Lippard and an introduction by theorist Kim Charnley, Delirium and Resistance draws on over thirty years of critical debates and practices both in and beyond the art world to historicize and advocate for the art activist tradition that radically - and, at times, deliriously - entangles the visual arts with political struggles.

List of FiguresAbbreviationsAcknowledgementsForeword: Is Another Art World Possible? - Lucy R. LippardArt on the Brink: Bare Art and the Crisis Of Liberal Democracy - Kim CharnleyPart I: Art WorldIntroduction I: Welcome to Our Art World1. Fidelity, Betrayal, Autonomy: Within and Beyond the Post-Cold War Art Museum2. Let's Do It Again Comrades, Let's Occupy the Museum!3. Bare Art, Debt, Oversupply, Panic! (On the Contradictions of a Twenty-First-Century Art Education)Part II: Cities Without SoulsIntroduction II: Naturalizing the Revanchist City4. Nature as an Icon of Urban Resistance on NYC's Lower East Side, 1979-19845. Mysteries of the Creative Class, or, I Have Seen the Enemy and They Is Us6. Occupology, Swarmology, Whateverology: The City of Disorder versus the People's Archive7. Art After GentrificationPart III: ResistanceIntroduction III: Critical Praxis/Partisan Art8. Counting on Your Collective Silence: Notes on Activist Art as Collaborative Practice9. Dark Matter: Activist Art and the Counter-Public Sphere10. On the Maidan Uprising and Imaginary Archive, Kiev11. Delirium and Resistance After the Social TurnPostscript: December 2016NotesBibliographyIndex