Extensive interview with Benjamin H.D. Buchloh by Hal Foster. Includes a selected index.

".... The bulk of the three-part book comprises Foster interviewing Buchloh about his life, intellectual formation, and work as a critic. What begins as a series of questions and answers in “Part 1: Biographemes” becomes, in “Part 2: Schisms” and especially in “Part 3: Dissensus,” much more of a back-and-forth, particularly toward the end of the book. There, Foster’s questions to Buchloh become increasingly direct, even pointed. And in this we see not only their evident mutual respect, but their shared view of what it means to be a critic and critical art historian. The dissensus that ends the interviews is thus not just a record of Buchloh’s sundry agreements and disagreements with art criticism and art history, but of Foster’s sundry agreements and disagreements with Buchloh. This pushback and occasional calling to task not only makes for compelling reading, but serves as an apt rejoinder to those who would collapse their differences into some kind of monolithic Octoberite orthodoxy. The book concludes with a short essay by Buchloh, a coda of sorts, in which he provides a more rigorously formulated claim about the (dismal) state of contemporary art criticism and the plight—indeed, the demise—of the contemporary art critic. ..." -- excerpt from Gordon Hughes, "NO JUDGMENT : On Benjamin H. D. Buchloh and Hal Foster’s Exit Interview," Arforum, November 2024.