October : the second decade, 1986-1996 /
edited by Rosalind Krauss [and others].
- xi, 447 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
"An October book.".
Includes bibliographical references.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Surrealist Precipitates -- Introduction to "Nostalgia of the Body" -- Nostalgia of the Body -- In Defense of Abstract Expressionism -- Before Bed -- "Where Is Your Rupture?": Mass Culture and the Gesamtkunstwerk -- Conceptual Art 1962-1969: From the Aesthetic of Administration to the Critique of Institutions -- Bad Enough Mother -- AIDS Timeline -- Reading Africa Through Foucault: V. Y. Mudimbe's Reaffirmation of the Subject -- Which Idea of Africa? Herskovits's Cultural Relativism -- "Fireflies Caught in Molasses": Questions of Cultural Translation -- The Public Sphere and Experience: Selections -- Cupid's Pencil of Light: Julia Margaret Cameron and the Maternalization of Photography -- The Body's Shadow Realm -- Is the Rectum a Grave? -- The Freudian Subject: From Politics to Ethics -- Death in America -- Aesthetics and Anaesthetics: Walter Benjamin's Artwork Essay Reconsidered -- Spectacle, Attention, Counter-Memory -- The Cultural Logic of the Late Capitalist Museum -- Postscript on the Societies of Control -- Like the difference between Autumn/Winter '94/'95 and Spring/Summer '95.