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Museum of capitalism /

The Museum of Capitalism in Oakland, California, treats capitalism as a historical phenomenon. This speculative institution views the present and recent past from the implied perspective of a future society in which our economic and political system is memorialized, and subjected to the museological...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Museum of Capitalism (organizing body,, ‡e host institution.)
Other Authors: Steves, Andrea (Editor), Furstnau, Timothy (Editor), Linke, Rose (Editor), Bell, Eugenia (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [Los Angeles, California] : Inventory Press, [2019]
Edition:Second expanded edition.
Subjects:
Capitalism > In art > Exhibitions.
Capitalism > Moral and ethical aspects > Exhibitions.
Money in art > Exhibitions.
Capitalism > History > 20th century.
Capitalism > History > 21st century.
Capitalism.
Capitalism > Moral and ethical aspects.
Money in art.
1900-2099
Exhibition catalogs.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Too soon / Fictilis
  • Genres of "capitalism" and the four sciences of social history / Stephen Squibb
  • Capitalocentrism and its discontents / J.K. Gibson Graham
  • Institutional safety / Abigail Satinsky
  • Capitalisms / Valeria Mogilevich
  • The recent past of captialist future / Ingrid Burrington
  • When the gravedigger was waged as the architect / Steven Cottingham
  • The long and winding road: race and capital / Lester K. Spence
  • Unendingness and the speculative present / Madeline Lane-McKinley
  • As capitalism dies / Heather Davis
  • Days of 2017 / Kevin Killian
  • The bankers' dance, a performance / Jodi Dean
  • Race: a post-capitalist perspective / Jennifer A. González
  • Between the archive and the street / Calum Storrie
  • A museum of contradictions / An interview with Lucy Lippard
  • Sacral art, courtly art, bourgeois art... and then... / Sayler/Morris
  • Visualizing lack and loss / Simon Sheikh
  • Museum of capitalism: an imaginal intervention / Chiara Bottici
  • Museums and capitalism / T.J. Demos
  • The (pre- post- de- anti- non-) museum in the capitalist age / Nina Power
  • A nonlinear justice / Ian Alan Paul
  • An agonistic conception of the museum / Chantal Mouffe
  • Plates
  • The new climate of history / Ben Davis
  • The end of capitalism / Sash Lilley
  • Capitalism as artifact / McKenzie Wark
  • Art after capitalism / Sarrita Hunn and James McAnally
  • Prehistory of a museum of capitalism / Fictilis
  • Ways to think about a museum of capitalism / Fictilis
  • Afterword / Kim Stanley Robinson.