Culture and Contestation in the New Century
Distributed for Intellect Ltd
- Contents
Introduction: Doing the Unexpected, Creating the Present
Marc James Léger
Part I: Critical Cultural Practice
Chapter 1: Hans Haacke and the Art of Not Being Governed Quite So Much
Rosalyn Deutsche
Chapter 2: Counting on Your Collective Silence: Notes on Activist Art as Collaborative Practice
Gregory Sholette
Chapter 3: Neo-Liberalism with Dutch Characteristics: The Big Fix-Up of the Netherlands and the Practice of Embedded Cultural Activism
BAVO
Part II: Creative Labour and Creative Industries
Chapter 4: ‘Everyone is Creative’: Artists as Pioneers of the New Economy?
Angela McRobbie
Chapter 5: Creative Industries as Mass Deception
Gerald Raunig
Chapter 6: Creative Industries: Neo-Liberalism as Mass Deception
Aras Ozgun
Part III: Neoliberal Governmentality and Cultural Resistance
Chapter 7: Not So Quiet on the Western Front: A Report on Risk and Cultural Resistance within the Neo-Liberal Society of Fear
Critical Art Ensemble
Chapter 8: From Reaching Heiligendamm: An Interview with Oliver Ressler
Marc James Léger
Chapter 9: 1 ½ Métro Côte-des-Neiges: Do They Owe Us a Living?
Mathieu Beauséjour
Part IV: Subjectivity in the Age of Post-Politics
Chapter 10: Anonymous Monuments to Ordinary Man and Woman: The Strange Case of Berlin’s Ampelmännchen
David Tomas
Chapter 11: Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer III and the Status of the Other
Bruce Barber
Chapter 12: On the Permanent Actuality for Revolutionary Cultural Politics of President Mao Ze Dong’s Slogan ‘Long Live the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution’
Slavoj Žižek
Contributors
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