This is Not New: Art, Culture, and the Promise of Change

Praise for Curationism: “Balzer writes with zest, scepticism and sly humour” Sheila Heti, author of Pure Colour

What does it mean to call something “new”? Why is Western art and culture, even after postmodernism, still so obsessed with the concept? What are the consequences of relying on culture to bring about social change?

In this provocative book, David Balzer argues that Western culture was never designed to produce truly new or original artefacts. Rather, we move from fixation to fixatio...