"Third Text" has been the world's leading journal on art in the global context. Divided into sections that cover history, representation, identity, film, "post" theory, globalization, this reader brings together classic essays by some of the best-known critics in global art and cultural studies.

"Third Text" has been the world's leading journal on art in the global context. Known for challenging received notions of art practice, art history, popular media and cultural theory, it has never accepted unquestioningly the claims of anti-racism, multiculturalism or postcolonialism. Similarly, "Third Text" has not only championed new artists from six continents, it has raised the critical temperature and the political stakes for art and cultural practice in the age of globalization. This Reader brings together classic essays by some of the best-known critics in global art and cultural studies, together with some of the most exciting new voices to emerge over the last decades. Divided into sections that cover history, representation, identity, film, "post" theory, globalization, the Reader will be invaluable to students and teachers of art, cultural studies, media studies, postcolonialism and globalization. The selected contributors include: Zygmunt Bauman, Rustom Bharucha, Zeynap Celik, James Clifford, Sean Cubitt, Jimmie Durham, Clifford Geertz, Stuart Hall, Kobener Mercer, Benita Parry, George Ritzer, Edward Said, Ziauddin Sardar, Julian Stallabrass, and Slavoj Zizek.

Prologue
1. In the Beginning: 'Third Text' and the Politics of Art, Sean Cubitt.
History
Introduction, Ziauddin Sardar.
2. Contemporary Cultural Practise: Some Polemical Categories, Geeta Kapur
3. Latin American Origins of 'Alternative Modernism', David Craven
4. Reverse Appropriation as Nationalism in Early Modern African Art, Olu Oguibe
5. Displaying Authenticity and Progress, Johan Lagae.
6. Colonial/Postcolonial Intersections, Zeynap Celik.
7. Whose Heritage? Un-settling 'The Heritage', Re-imagining the Post-Nation, Stuart Hall.
Representation
Introduction, Annie Coombes.
8. Discovering the European Wild Man, Roger Bartra.
9. 'Cowboys and...', Jimmie Durham.
10. Ethnicity and Internationality: New British Art and Diaspora-Based Blackness, Kobena Mercer.
11. Art as Ethnocide: The Case of Australia, Anne-Marie Willis and Tony Fry. Identity
Introduction, Jurella Andrews.
12. Identity: Reality or Fiction?
13. Identity and Myth Today, Ticio Escobar.
14 The Voice of a Palestinian in Exile, Edward Said.
15. The Others: Beyond the Salvage Paradigm, James Clifford.
16. Restless Hybrids, Nikos Papastergiadis.
Film
Introduction, Merryl Wyn Davies.
17. Dancing witth Words and Speaking with Forked Tongues, Jean Fisher.
18. Walt Disney and the Double Victimisation of Pocahontas, Ziauddin Sardar.
19. Directing the Real: 'Orapronobis' and Philippine Totalitarianism, Jonathan L. Beller.
20. The Critical Practice and Dialectics of Third Cinema, Michael Wayne.
Post Theory
Introduction, Jorella Andrews.
21. Queries for Postcolonial Studies, Ihab Hassan.
22. Signs of Our Times: Discussion of Homi Bhabha's 'The Location of Culture', Benita Parry.
23. The Failure of Postmodernity: How Africa Misunderstood the West, Denis Ekpo.
24. The Marco Polo Syndrome, Gerado Mosquera.
Globalisation
Introduction, Julian Stallabrass.
25. Scene and Obscene, Zygmunt Bauman.
26. The 'New Asian' Museums in the Age of Globalisation, Rustom Bharucha.
27. Cybersublime: Representing the Unrepresentable in Digital Art and Politics, John Byrne.
28. Against the Double Blackmail, Slavoj Zizek.
29. Obscene from any Angle, George Ritzer.
Epilogue
30. A New Beginning: Beyond Postcolonial Cultural Theory and Identity Politics, Rasheed Araeen.