Plans for "What Happens Next"

Coming at the end rather than at the beginning, 'What Happens Next' reads NOT as a programmatic statement but as an experiment: what would happen to the art history of past political events if we use a model of encounter? What would those histories become? How would they treat the past?

It's also a methodological chapter: after tracking the encounter through three primary cases, the coda would ask, and try to answer, some questions about what art history would have to look like, what it would have to become, in order deal with an aesthetics of encounter? What would its politics become? What would count as political art history? How, in that POV, does October school politics (e.g. Buchloh) look wrong? Limiting? Darboven, Kawara, Buchloh and Lippard all then become cases in that story.

The overall gesture is not "this is how not to do it" but "this is how to do it, this is how it might be done."