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Under Pressure
Pictures, Subjects, and the New Spirit of Capitalism
Daniel Birnbaum, Isabelle Graw, Institut für Kunstkritik
Art isn’t just about creating work anymore. Today, external pressures and constraints play a large role in the artistic process and production. In recognition of this reality, the Institut für Kunstkritik held a series of conferences in 2006 and 2007 to explore the value system that results from what they dubbed the New Spirit of Capitalism and to confront theoretical models with ad-hoc conditions of production. The thoughts of conference participants Luc Boltanski, Sabeth Buchmann, Tim Griffin, W.J.T. Mitchell, Sighard Neckel, Martin Saar, and Paolo Virno are compiled in this book of questions and dilemmas for today’s cultural producers and society at large.
4 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches / 96 pp / 4 b&w
ISBN: 978-1-933128-27-6
Retail Price: $19.95
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The Vicissitudes of Corruption
Degeneration, Transgression, Jouissance
Thomas Taro Lennerfors
A profoundly thought-provoking look at corruption in contemporary society around the world, and how it is addressed both publicly and privately. The authors posit that corruption is tightly related to modernity, and explore various critiques of the modern understanding of corruption. In this fascinating and wide-ranging survey of a problem often swept under the rug, the authors use the circumstances of bribery in Swedish public sector procurement as a case study, interviewing project managers responsible for public procurement on the subject of bribes and gifts, and also considering partiality and objectivity in supplier evaluations. The reader will be surprised at the reach and depth of corruption.
446 pp / 4 b&w
ISBN: 978-91-71788-39-9
Retail Price: $40.00