Table of Contents:
  • Preface : the work of art in the (imagined) age of unalienated exhibition / Yvonne Rainer
  • On democracy / Group Material
  • Democracy and cultural activism / Brian Wallis
  • Social aesthetics / David Deitcher
  • Whose canon is it, anyway? / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
  • Letter to Group Material / Catherine Lord
  • A conversation with Paulo Freire / Ira Shor
  • Elections offer an illusion of participation / Mark P. Petracca
  • An interview with Noam Chomsky / Bill Moyers
  • Men I have liked / Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Blood brothers / Gary Indiana
  • Them / Alexander Cockburn
  • "When I was a young soldier for the revolution" : coming to voice / bell hooks
  • The fear that feminism will free men first / Deirdre English
  • Representation, liberation, and the queer press / Polly Thistlethwaite
  • Sex panics / Lisa Duggan
  • Dinner at eight (seconds) / Erma Bombeck
  • Consumption : a partial totality / Stuart Ewen
  • Paradox and paralysis : an overview of the American response to AIDS / Tom Stoddard
  • Where we are now : homo video ; The window on Broadway by ACT UP / William Olander
  • A test of who we are as a people / Vito Russo.