Public servants: art and the crisis of the common good

Series preface / Johanna Burton

Director's foreword / Lisa Phillips

Plight of the publics: an introduction to Public servants / Johanna Burton, Shannon Jackson, and Dominic Willsdon

Public works. "We don't need another hero": war and public memory / Rosalyn Deutsche

Who owns a vacant lot?: orthodoxy vs. culture industry / Lise Soskolne

Art and the cultural contradictions of urban regeneration, social justice, and sustainability: Transforma Projects and Prospect.1 in post-Katrina New Orleans / Joshua Decter

Latin America and a new political leadership: experimental acts of coexistence / Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman

The destruction of destruction / Eyal Weizman

Department of security. The fire this time: Black youth and the spectacle of postracial violence / Henry A. Giroux

Photo requests from solitary / Jean Casella, Jeanine Oleson, Laurie Jo Reynolds, Solitary Watch, and Tamms Years Ten, with Steven Corotan, Darrius "D-Man" Fields, Robert Frazier, Rachel Herman, Chris Murphy, Frank Reyna, Robert Sauseda Jr., Willie Sterling, Kijana Tashiri Askari, and Robert Timm

Can this machine kill mass incarceration? / Joshua Dubler

Squeaky Dolphin to Normcore: anxiety in a big-data era / Kate Crawford

Department of labor and economy. Biopolitics, identity, and the public sphere in the 1970s: Oskar Negt and Alexander Kluge

W.A.G.E.N.C.Y. / W.A.G.E. (Working Artists and the Greater Economy)

Indent (to serve the debt) / Fred Moten and Stefano Harney

In service: art, value, merit, and the making of publics / Andrea Phillips

Portfolio / Simone Leigh ; Ashley Hunt ; Pedro Reyes ; Jeanne van Heeswijk ; Gregg Bordowitz ; Mel Chin ; Pablo Helguera ; Caroline Woolard ; Jonas Staal ; Andrea Fraser ; organized by Alicia Ritson and Kaegan Sparks

Department of education. Neoliberalized knowledge / Wendy Brown

Back to the future (of art school) / Alex Klein

Sliding scale: between art and education / Marit Dewhurst in conversation with Johanna Burton

Mutual rehabilitation: Norfolk Prison recordings of art books for blind readers / Mara Mills

Department of health and environment. Art after nature: the post-natural condition / T.J. Demos

Dear

-, I write regarding toxic sovereignties in Windjarrameru /

Elizabeth A. Povinelli

Embodied memory: reimagining and legislating sumak kawsay in the modern Andes / Bill Kelley Jr.

Women, Waves, Web / Carrie Lambert-Beatty

Department of culture. Government agency / Tom Finkelpearl in conversation with Shannon Jackson

A critique of social practice art: what does it mean to be a political artist? / Ben Davis

Growing dialogue: what is the effectiveness of socially engaged art? / Ben Davis, Tom Finkelpearl, Deborah Fisher, Elizabeth Grady, Richard Kooyman, Rick Lowe, Louisa McCall, Ernesto Pujol, Katy Reckdahl, Gregory Sholette, Noah Simblist, Randall Szott, Nato Thompson, and Glenn Weiss

Starting in the middle: NGOs and emergent forms for cultural institutions / Irit Rogoff