Cultural Activism Today. The Ar
 t of Over-Identification is a p
 rovocative intervention in the
 current debate where the effect
 ivity of non-radical artistic s
 tatements is being considered.
 Released by Episode Publishers
 and launched on November 3rd 20
 07 at Witte de With in Rotterda
 m, Cultural Activism Today incl
 udes essays viscerally addressi
 ng performance, activism and co
 ntemporary pieces of art and an
 d refers to works by Santiago S
 ierra, Christoph Schlingensief,
  Jens Haaning, Irwin, Laibach,
 Martijn Engelbregt, AVL and oth
 ers.

 In questioning the suffocating
 cultural situation of a self im
 posed historical trap the book
 refuses to enter the critical t
 hought process and break its ow
 n imprisonment. This volume arg
 ues that the key to a way out o
 f the trap of the End of Histor
 y in contemporary art lies in a
  simple strategy of over-identi
 fication without having to enga
 ge in the pseudo histrionics of
 Francis Fukuyama and the likes.

 Cultural Activism Today is base
 d on a symposium held at the St
 edelijk Museum CS Amsterdam on
 January 18th 2006. The book con
 tains generic text matter that
 fuses the characteristics of wr
 itten word with acoustic attrib
 utes like creating visual sound
  waves through the font sizes t
 hat are based on the sine wave
 function. Printed 'text', incre
 ases according to relevancy her
 e, given the context, it is int
 rinsically connected to hybrid
 text.