Reddit reviews Postproduction (Sternberg Press)

eflux is great. I also recommend any of Dave Hickey's books; Air Guitar and The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty though older are good to start with. You may also check Nicolas Bourriaud's books; He became famous also in the mid 90s for coining Relational Aesthetics but I think his later books are also worth checking out. Postproduction: Culture as Screenplay: How Art Reprograms the World and the Radicant. Both these writers will give a pretty good perspective of were a lot of the art of the past 20 years is coming from without getting to bogged down in theory or artspeak etc.

I also really liked Hito Steyerl's book last year - Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War

I recommend finding/purchasing a copy of the book ‘Appropriation’. It is part of a set of books produced by the Whitechapel gallery in London, they are excellent anthologies of sources by artists and writers around key subjects. The excerpts are often short but those of interest to you can lead to further reading.

I believe you’d also find ‘Postproduction’ by Nicolas Bourriaud compelling.

Good luck with your research.