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Public servants : art and the crisis of the common good

Title
  1. Public servants : art and the crisis of the common good / edited by Johanna Burton, Shannon Jackson, and Dominic Willsdon.
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  1. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2016]

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Additional authors
  1. Burton, Johanna
  2. Jackson, Shannon, 1967-
  3. Willsdon, Dominic
Description
  1. xxvi, 515 pages; 25 cm.
Series statement
  1. Critical anthologies in art and culture
Uniform title
  1. Critical anthologies in art and culture.
Subject
  1. Art and state
  2. Arts and society
Contents
  1. 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.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.