Table of Contents

Robin Mackay, 'Introduction'; Roman Vasseur, 'Site and Materiality'; Yves Mettler, 'Europe Squared'; Nick Ferguson, 'Speedscaping'; John Gerrard, 'Remote-Control Site (Interview)'; Andrea Phillips, 'Making the Public'; Matthew Poole, 'Specificities of Sitedness'; Benedict Singleton, 'The Long Con'; Ilona Gaynor, 'Chaos and Black Carpets'; Paul Chaney, 'Fieldwork'; Shaun Lewin, 'A Brief History of Transcendence in Maps'; Matthew Watkins, 'Local, Global, and Beyond'; Reza Negarestani, 'Where is the Concept?'; Robin Mackay, 'The Barker Topos'; Justin Barton and Mark Fisher, 'On Vanishing Land'; Justin Barton, Mark Fisher, and Robin Mackay, 'Outsights (Interview)'; Dan Fox, 'Silent Running'

About the Author

Robin Mackay is a philosopher, Director of the UK arts organization Urbanomic, and Associate Researcher at Goldsmiths University of London.

Robin Mackay is a philosopher, Director of the UK arts organization Urbanomic, and Associate Researcher at Goldsmiths University of London.

Yves Mettler is an artist with degrees in art and social sciences whose works have been shown internationally. He has previously published the book My Flowers Aren't Always Hiding Secrets.

Reza Negarestani is an Iranian philosopher best known for pioneering the genre of "theory-fiction" with his book Cyclonopedia. (Urbanomic/Sequence Press).

Robin Mackay is a philosopher, Director of the UK arts organization Urbanomic, and Associate Researcher at Goldsmiths University of London.

Reviews

“Site-specificity” has never been invoked as frequently and meaninglessly as it is in the art of today, making this volume's critique and de-mystification a crucial intervention.—Mostafa Heddaya, Blouin Artinfo International