... Track four begins with a shellac collector’s convention, situating collecting in the context of a particular subcultural activity, imagining a range of possibilities from solitary collecting to being “the focal point of social interaction.” Returning to a memoir-like mode, the author reflects...

... Track four begins with a shellac collector’s convention, situating collecting in the context of a particular subcultural activity, imagining a range of possibilities from solitary collecting to being “the focal point of social interaction.” Returning to a memoir-like mode, the author reflects...

... by the artist at its debut, The Louisiana Project examines both the distant past of slaveholding, antebellum Louisiana and its recent present, characterized by economic crisis and racial segregation. This essay interprets the project through theories of focalization and asks the viewer to see through the artist...

... it became a focal point for many of the social, political, and cultural movements that emerged. It was also to serve as the hub of a grassroots arts movement that spread throughout the African American community, in many ways exemplifying ideas about the role of art and artists in the community that had...

... the record head and playback head of analog tape recorders and later computer-generated delays. An improvised performance by Pauline Oliveros and Barre Philips is analyzed to demonstrate a compositional result informed by focal and global listening. The chapter opens with a history of Oliveros’s development...

... happenings, and underground film, the Mudd Club became a focal point for a new form of hybrid partying. Mudd Club Steve Mass downtown art scene punk disco ...

... and that Žižek provides us with tools and methodologies to undertake such a reading. The focal point is Žižek’s reading of Christianity and the possibility of its repetition on Islam. The reading that Žižek provides of Christianity can be repeated, not copied, in reading Islam. The chapter contends that Žižek...

... This introduction elaborates the prologue’s interpretation of George Morrison’s Collage IX: Landscape by linking to a reading of an even larger collage displayed on the exterior wall of the Minneapolis American Indian Center. Using this piece as a focal point, the introduction outlines...

... have risen in prominence, often serving as focal points through which social and economic activity are brokered. However, due to an absence of running water, electricity, and essential supplies within its walls, the hospital in eastern Congo often fails to provide physical healing. Rather, as it bears...

... reference to the work of philosopher of science Imre Lakatos, the chapter provides a counternarrative to the usual England-dominated narrative about Art & Language’s interest in indexing. The artist’s book Blurting in a&l is the best-articulated example of this direction and is the focal point...

... do more than place in relief US militarization efforts and longstanding practices and commitments to empire building in the Antilles: they focalize a turn in US geopolitics and national defense strategy away from isolationism and toward an understanding of the world as a global theater of potential...

... provides us with tools and methodologies to undertake such a reading. The focal point is Žižek’s reading of Christianity and the possibility of its repetition on Islam. The reading that Žižek provides of Christianity can be repeated, not copied, in reading Islam. The chapter contends that Žižek provides...

...) and the time delay between the record head and playback head of analog tape recorders and later computer-generated delays. An improvised performance by Pauline Oliveros and Barre Philips is analyzed to demonstrate a compositional result informed by focal and global listening. The chapter opens with a history...

... segregation. This essay interprets the project through theories of focalization and asks the viewer to see through the artist in multiple ways. New Orleans Louisiana Mardi Gras race photography This essay examines the history and impact of the long-running traveling exhibition 30 Americans...

...: they focalize a turn in US geopolitics and national defense strategy away from isolationism and toward an understanding of the world as a global theater of potential threat against US safety and interests. This geopolitical turn effectively underscores the fiction belying continentalism—continents...

... integrating live music, DJ-ing, immersive happenings, and underground film, the Mudd Club became a focal point for a new form of hybrid partying. Mudd Club Steve Mass downtown art scene punk disco CBGB regulars Ann Magnuson, Susan Hannaford, and Tom Scully took over the running of Club 57...