Is the concept of ‘The Altermodern’, which organises Nicholas Bourriaud’s Spring art blockbuster at Tate Britain, anything more than re-spun curatorial spin? – asks Nickolas Lambrianou

More from Home's garrulous blog. Bourriaud, coiner of 'relational aesthetics' and erstwhile master of neologisms, meets his match in Home, the master of neoism, to his lasting damage. Here Home stops short of accusing Bourriaud of crypto-fascism with his doomed-to-fail proposition of an 'altermodernity'; one that will fuse post-colonialism and modernism in an 'archipelago' of individualism, anti-essentialism, and modernist shock tactics. As Home points out, modernity and post-colonialism always were part of the same historical development - late capitalist globalisation.

Was modernism complicit with colonialism, and did the struggle for decolonisation also entail the targeting of imperial modernist architecture? Mark Crinson visits the exhibition In the Desert of Modernity to see if the charge will stick

On the pretext of a child sexual abuse crisis in Australia’s Northern Territory the Howard government passed emergency legislation and prepared a land invasion of aboriginal areas by police, doctors and the army. Elizabeth Povinelli locates this latest state of exception in a wider neoliberal project to impose work and austerity. Images and text box by Benedict Seymour

This extract from an unfinished text by Angela Mitropoulos, posted on archive : s0metim3s (http://archive.blogsome.com/2007/08/07/indigenous-land/#comments), gives part of the historical background (which some European readers may have overlooked) to the current military-medical invasion of Aboriginal land in Australia's Northern Territory.  Most importantly, the text explains the concrete connection between intervention in the name of 'health' and 'ed