This book offers a reflection on art through its «derivations», that is, the movements that nest in creation and that make all forms fit into current art. Throughout its chapters, not only creation itself is considered, but also the discipline of Art History, its limits and the need to propose new methods and reading strategies.

And this from a way of understanding knowledge through exchanges of knowledge between disciplines –related or not–, instead of wanting to encapsulate it in a single and delimited field. It is this reticular knowledge that explains the aforementioned «drifts», which, starting from a central nucleus that could be summarized in an analysis of the theory and history of global art of the last two decades, diversify into multiple non-hierarchical visions that give account of the contexts in which they are generated and operate.

In short, this text develops a series of "lines of flight" that, from art criticism, Visual Studies, the concept of archive or globalization, both converge and diverge in search of a continuous movement and, ultimately, generate a common space from which to recognize that as much or more important than the art that our global moment conceives, is the way of analyzing it, narrating it, communicating it and making it extendable to an active and participatory audience.