Public servants
Subtitle: art and the crisis of the common good
By: edited by Johanna Burton, Shannon Jackson, and Dominic Willsdon
Series: Critical anthologies in art and culture; Critical anthologies in art and culture
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Language: eng
Number of pages: 515
ISBN-13: 9780262034814
Subjects: Arts and society; Art and state
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Series preface / -- Johanna Burton -- Director's foreword / -- Lisa Phillips; title: Plight of the publics: an introduction to Public servants  -- Johanna Burton, Shannon Jackson, and Dominic Willsdon; title: Public works.; title: "We don't need another hero": war and public memory  -- Rosalyn Deutsche; title: Who owns a vacant lot?: orthodoxy vs. culture industry  -- Lise Soskolne; title: Art and the cultural contradictions of urban regeneration, social justice, and sustainability: Transforma Projects and Prospect.1 in post-Katrina New Orleans  -- Joshua Decter; title: Latin America and a new political leadership: experimental acts of coexistence  -- Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman; title: The destruction of destruction  -- Eyal Weizman; title: Department of security.; title: The fire this time: Black youth and the spectacle of postracial violence  -- Henry A. Giroux; title: 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; title: Can this machine kill mass incarceration?  -- Joshua Dubler; title: Squeaky Dolphin to Normcore: anxiety in a big-data era  -- Kate Crawford; title: Department of labor and economy.; title: Biopolitics, identity, and the public sphere in the 1970s: Oskar Negt and Alexander Kluge --; title: W.A.G.E.N.C.Y.  -- W.A.G.E. (Working Artists and the Greater Economy); title: Indent (to serve the debt)  -- Fred Moten and Stefano Harney; title: In service: art, value, merit, and the making of publics  -- Andrea Phillips; title: 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; title: Department of education.; title: Neoliberalized knowledge  -- Wendy Brown; title: Back to the future (of art school)  -- Alex Klein; title: Sliding scale: between art and education  -- Marit Dewhurst in conversation with Johanna Burton; title: Mutual rehabilitation: Norfolk Prison recordings of art books for blind readers  -- Mara Mills; title: Department of health and environment.; title: Art after nature: the post-natural condition  -- T.J. Demos; title: Dear ---------, I write regarding toxic sovereignties in Windjarrameru  -- Elizabeth A. Povinelli; title: Embodied memory: reimagining and legislating sumak kawsay in the modern Andes  -- Bill Kelley Jr.; title: Women, Waves, Web  -- Carrie Lambert-Beatty; title: Department of culture.; title: Government agency  -- Tom Finkelpearl in conversation with Shannon Jackson; title: A critique of social practice art: what does it mean to be a political artist?  -- Ben Davis; title: 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; title: Starting in the middle: NGOs and emergent forms for cultural institutions -- Irit Rogoff.