"With stunning precision, Larne Abse Gogarty skewers the fallacies of flatly nihilistic fact-shoveling, post-internet, post-everything art, which preens about its capacity to lift a curtain on secret world workings using repurposed enemy tools. Tossing overboard the faux radicals as revamped liberals dealing in the already known, the author offers versions of a real beauty in art and critique in that which orients towards unmasking links in the chains of oppression. Prizing unruly associations, the book moves its thinking in spirals, drawing into one breath, which is a blow, the inner core of conspiracy and inspiration, consciousness and insurrection."
Esther Leslie, Professor of Political Aesthetics, Birkbeck, University of London
"In a time of rampant conspiracy theories and actual criminal conspirators in power, what do we make of the conspiracy as a practice conceived from below? Across trenchant analyses that range from the contemporary resurfacing of fascist aesthetics to the radical work of artists including Cady Noland and Ima-Abasi Okon, Larne Abse Gogarty gives reason to believe that art can again be a space of insurgent interventions rather than one of liberal reconciliation."
David Lloyd, Distinguished Professor of English, University of California, Riverside, and author of Under Representation: The Racial Regime of the Aesthetic
