"But is it politics?" flips the still-circulating question of "But is it art?" from the 70s in order to pose a new set of questions regarding cultural production's potential or effect. Art can no longer be imagined as an autonomous field, but is mediated and negotiated as any other social field. Today's politicised art practice that is engaged in the rearticulation of social, political and economical formations is confronted with a multilayered determining system of legitimation and identification. This system forecloses and appropriates the space and strategies that politicized art once claimed as its own site of opposition and legitimation....