# Aesthetics of Algorithmic Experience **Opening (not a real abstract):** The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics offers a thorough examination of the complex relationship between art and politics, and the many forms and approaches the engagement between them can take. The contributors—a diverse assembly of artists, activists, and scholars from around the world— discuss and demonstrate ways of making art and politics legible and salient in the world. As such, the 32 chapters in this volume reflect on performing and visual arts; music, film, and new media; as well as covering social practice, community-based work, conceptual, interventionist, and movement-affiliated forms. The Companion is divided into four distinct parts:     **Authors:** [[Ned Rossiter 2015]]