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Public servants: art and the crisis of the common good
Publisher
The MIT Press
Publication Date
[2016]
Language
English
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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
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9780262034814
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