Postproduction

"Since its initial publication in 2001, Postproduction has been translated into five languages; depending on the translation schedules in various countries, publication either overlapped with or preceded that of another of my books, Esthetique relationnelle (Relational Aesthetics), written five years earlier. The relationship between these two theoretical essays has often been the source of a certain misunderstanding, if not malevolence, on the part of a critical generation that knows itself to be slowing down and counters my theories with recitations from "The Perfect American Soft Marxist Handbook" and a few vestiges of Greenbergian catechism. Let's not even talk about it." – Nicolas Bourriaud, from the preface to the second edition of his essay Postproduction, Culture as Screenplay: How Art Reprograms the World