The Radical Unpresent: Cultural Resistance in a Fractured World

A necessary and timely exploration of art activism today, informed by centuries of protest.

How contemporary artists and activists are navigating and resisting the collapse of historical time in our uncanny present.

The Radical Unpresent examines our disorienting contemporary moment, in which our experience of time has become profoundly disrupted. Building on his earlier work on “dark matter” in the art world, Gregory Sholette introduces the concept of the unpresent—a condition in which ever...