The writing of Joseph Kosuth has been, from its origins, inextricably connected to his own artistic practice. Considered one of the founders of what we now call conceptual art, this book collects his most extensive collection of essays, interviews, letters and unpublished texts that span the fifty years in which Kosuth has not only been producing work, but also, and over all, generating artistic positions highly informed by the philosophy of language, Freud, Wittgenstein, Marxism or cultural anthropology. In fact, this book realizes that, to a certain extent, conceptual art constituted a program. A way of questioning forms of the given system and of altering dynamics of the artistic context. His point of view was not focused on the objects of art (if something resembles this selection of essays, it is an open anti-formalist and anti-morphological manifesto), but towards the interrogation of the field in which those objects worked. In their entirety, these writings present a new definition of the expanded role and responsibility of the artist in our times, from the hand of those who set out to stop looking at the images, at least the images given, and start looking from farther away, explore the context, know the history and find a critical order with respect to what we are seeing. Avoid overexposure to make transparent the scaffolding that makes us see