Table of Contents
Preface
Craig Owens: "The Indignity of Speaking for Others" by Simon Watney
PART I • TOWARD A THEORY OF POSTMODERNISM
Einstein on the Beach: The Primacy of Metaphor
Photography en abyme
Detachment: from the parergon
Earthwords
The Allegorical Impulse: Toward a Theory of Postmodernism
The Allegorical Impulse: Toward a Theory of Postmodernism, Part 2
Representation, Appropriation, and Power
Sherrie Levine at A&M Artworks
Allan McCollum: Repetition and Difference
From Work to Frame, or, Is There Life After "The Death of the Author"?
PART II • SEXUALITY/POWER
Honor, Power, and the Love of Women
William Wegman's Psychoanalytic Vaudeville
The Discourse of Others: Feminists and Postmodernism
The Medusa Effect, or, The Specular Ruse
Posing
Outlaws: Gay Men in Feminism
PART III • CULTURES
Politics of Coppelia
Sects and Language
The Critic as Realist
"The Indignity of Spe'aking for Others": An Imaginary Interview
The Problem with Puerilism
Analysis Logical and Ideological
Improper Names
Interview with Craig Owens by Anders Stephanson
The Yen for Art
Global Issues
PART IV • PEDAGOGY
Postmodern Art 1971-1986
Bibliography: Contemporary Art and Art Criticism
Seminar in Theory and Criticism
Bibliography: The Political Economy of Culture
Visualizing AIDS
Course Bibliography on Visual AIDS
Bibliography
Index