"The volume presents Kapur's continuing engagement with significant developments in art practice, discourse, and exhibitions in the twenty-first century. Many of the contributions were originally spoken, demonstrating the relationship between rhetorical utterance and call to action invoked by the book's title. If an understanding of "cultural conjuncture"-a crucial concept borrowed from cultural theorist Stuart Hall-has inflected the field of postcolonial and diasporic cultural studies, Kapur emphasizes "disjuncture" as its necessary correlate to make "the contours of the contemporary jagged and sharp, therefore legible.""
"Throughout the volume, Kapur attempts to come to terms with the drastically shifting conditions for cultural production and critical intervention in South Asia and across the Global South more broadly, as neoliberal capital, religious fundamentalism, and nationalist jingoism produce new kinds of crises and urgencies for progressive art and culture. While When Was Modernism addressed the historical conditions for vanguard practice in India during the long twentieth century (with a focus on the postindependence decades),"
Collected essays, lectures, and interviews map two decades of engagement with twenty-first-century art practice, discourse, and exhibitions. Many contributions were originally spoken, linking rhetorical utterance to calls for action. The concept of 'disjuncture' is emphasized as a necessary correlate to 'cultural conjuncture' to render contemporary contours jagged and legible. The contributions confront drastically shifting conditions for cultural production across South Asia and the Global South, where neoliberal capital, religious fundamentalism, and nationalist jingoism generate new crises and urgencies for progressive art. A 'historical contemporary' is proposed to resist de-historicized global contemporary slippages between market, museum, critic, and collector.
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