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Ruminations on Lo Sucio as a Latino Queer Analytic by Deborah R. Vargas



There's No Place Like Home by Andrea Fraser



In and Out of Place by Andrea Fraser



Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste (Introduction) by Pierre Bourdieu



Death 24x a Second (Chapter 2) by Laura Mulvey



The Institution of Critique by Hito Steyerl



Power Relations within Existing Art Institutions by Adrian Piper



Why Third Text? by Rasheed Araeen



The Queer Art of Failure (Chapter 3) by Jack Halberstam



Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (Introduction) by Jose Esteban Munoz



The Artist Leaving the Googleplex by Andrew Norman Wilson



Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique by Roderick A. Ferguson



Occupational Realism by Julia Bryan-Wilson



Bodies in Alliance and the Politics of the Street (excerpts) by Judith Butler



Put Your Thing Down, Flip It, and Reverse It: Reimagining Craft Identities Using Tactics of Queer Theory by L.J. Roberts



Gaze by Margaret Olin



Origins of Transference by Melanie Klein



The Right to Speak by Pierre Bourdieu



Art and Objecthood by Michael Fried



Whose Monument Where? Public Art in a Many-Cultured Society by Judith Baca



Sculpture in the Expanded Field by Rosalind Krauss



Museums: Managers of Consciousness by Hans Haacke



The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House by Audre Lorde



Contemporary Art and the Plight of its Public by Leo Steinberg



What Is Art? (Chapter 5) by Leo Tolstoy



Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences by Jacques Derrida



Getting the Warhol We Deserve: Cultural Studies and Queer Culture by Douglas Crimp



In, around, and afterthoughts (on documentary photography) by Martha Rosler







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