Sweet Dreams

List of Illustrations
Preface: Starting Now

1. Sweet Dreams
1. Twilight
2. Reawakening and Imagining Otherwise, Again

2. Current Conditions
1. Symbolic Currency
2. Complicit Sensibilities
3. Forms of Flirtation

3. Critical Histories
1. The Legacy of Autonomy
2. The Reconceptualization of Art

4. Forms of Complicity
1. Slacker Aesthetics
2. Violating the Old Taboos of Fashion, Amusement, and Sentimentality
3. New Monumentality and the "Now" Sublime
4. After Visual Un-pleasure or Monsters and Flesh
5. Painting as an Impure Medium
6. Hybridity and Unnaturalism
7. Thingness and Objecthood
8. Affectivity and Entropy
9. Dubious Documents
10. New Aestheticism and Media Culture
11. Techno-bodies and Art Culture
12. Commodified and Mediated Identities
13. Image Branding and Art Product Design
14. Flagrant Complicity
15. Mediation of Modern Life

Conclusion
Notes
Index