... Every story has multiple sides to it, as a meeting with the Municipal Police reveals. ...

... A fire in Cochabamba’s Cancha marketplace reveals the deep interconnections between formality and informality, and legality and illegality, that characterize political and economic life in the contemporary city. ...

... The introduction reveals how the author and Bruno got to know one another, how the interviews were conducted, and how the manuscript was produced. ...

... Documentary photographs in Las Vegas reveal the many visual tricks used to purposely reveal everything, even the copies of foreign architecture, to be fake. With multiple versions of costumed characters parading the streets, wax figures posing with tourists, advertisements juxtaposed with iconic...

... The new arenas of contestation that Mumbai’s water infrastructures animate reveal the illusory and precarious nature of the project to remake Mumbai as a world-class city. These dynamics, described as “pipe politics,” gesture instead toward the highly contested futures of the actually existing...

... suggesting that the carceral structures of camps reveal the foundational violence of the state as the basis of politics, the chapter argues that the government of species linked structures of repressive medical power to liberal practices of medical reform. Carceral settings for segregating Hansen’s patients...

... and its importance for art-workers-cum-artists such as Rhonda Unurupa Dick. Dick’s award-winning landscape portraiture confounds distinctions between subject and object, human and nature, literacy and the photograph. Her work reveals how, contra to expectation, tradition is not at risk from the...

... Exploring the performer and composer Elsie Houston’s reception in her day and, posthumously, in her birthplace of Brazil and abroad in Europe and the United States, this essay follows the politics projected onto music. The ways people use music to stake political claims can reveal the contours...

... This chapter examines the only solo exhibition of work by Art & Language’s New York section, which took place amid the group’s collapse. This manifestation at John Weber Gallery reveals the components of Art & Language’s work torn asunder. Some projects, particularly musical...

... synchronic, deterministic, and numeric or “digital” ways of thinking. Bergson employs a suite of other metaphors that allow us to unsolder these terms from their associated media. New understandings of the digital, the analog, and the virtual are revealed in Christian Marclay’s The Clock (2010), a twenty...