Public servants : art and the crisis of the common good /
edited by Johanna Burton, Shannon Jackson, and Dominic Willsdon.
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2016].
- xxvi, 515 pages : illustrations (principalement en couleur) ; 25 cm.
- Critical anthologies in art and culture .
Plight of the publics: an introduction to Public servants / Public works. We don\'t need another hero: war and public memory / Who owns a vacant lot?: orthodoxy vs. culture industry / Art and the cultural contradictions of urban regeneration, social justice, and sustainability: Transforma Projects and Prospect.1 in post-Katrina New Orleans / Latin America and a new political leadership: experimental acts of coexistence / The destruction of destruction / Department of security. The fire this time: Black youth and the spectacle of postracial violence / Photo requests from solitary / Can this machine kill mass incarceration? / Squeaky Dolphin to Normcore: anxiety in a big-data era / 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. / Indent (to serve the debt) / In service: art, value, merit, and the making of publics / Portfolio / Department of education. Neoliberalized knowledge / Back to the future (of art school) / Sliding scale: between art and education / Mutual rehabilitation: Norfolk Prison recordings of art books for blind readers / Department of health and environment. Art after nature: the post-natural condition / Dear -- , I write regarding toxic sovereignties in Windjarrameru / Embodied memory: reimagining and legislating sumak kawsay in the modern Andes / Women, Waves, Web / Department of culture. Government agency / A critique of social practice art: what does it mean to be a political artist? / Growing dialogue: what is the effectiveness of socially engaged art? / Starting in the middle: NGOs and emergent forms for cultural institutions / Johanna Burton -- Lisa Phillips -- Johanna Burton, Shannon Jackson, and Dominic Willsdon -- Rosalyn Deutsche -- Lise Soskolne -- Joshua Decter -- Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman -- Eyal Weizman -- Henry A. Giroux -- 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 -- Joshua Dubler -- Kate Crawford -- W.A.G.E. (Working Artists and the Greater Economy) -- Fred Moten and Stefano Harney -- Andrea Phillips -- 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 -- Wendy Brown -- Alex Klein -- Marit Dewhurst in conversation with Johanna Burton -- Mara Mills -- T.J. Demos -- Elizabeth A. Povinelli -- Bill Kelley Jr. -- Carrie Lambert-Beatty -- Tom Finkelpearl in conversation with Shannon Jackson -- Ben Davis -- 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 -- Irit Rogoff. Series preface / Director\'s foreword /