The Subversive imagination : artists, society, and social responsibility /

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : presenting the problem / Carol Becker -- Part I : Personal responsibility and political contingencies -- Part II : Decolonizing the imagination -- Part III : Theorizing the future.

Introduction : presenting the problem / Carol Becker -- The prehistory of art : cultural practices and Athenian democracy / Page duBois -- A plea for irresponsibility / Ewa Kuryluk -- Dead doll prophecy / Kathy Acker -- The heuristic power of art / Elizam Escobar -- Place, position, power, politics / Martha Rosler -- The velvet revolution and iron necessity / Eva Hauser -- El diario de Miranda/Miranda's diary / Coco Fusco -- Herbert Marcuse and the subversive potential of art / Carol Becker -- East and West, the twain do meet : a tale of more than two worlds / Felipe Ehrenberg -- Defining South African literature for a new nation / Njabulo S. Ndebele -- The politics of Black masculinity and the ghetto in Black film / Michael Eric Dyson -- Adjusting to the world according to Salman Rushdie / Ahmad Sadri -- Bennetton's "world without borders" : buying social change / Henry A. Giroux -- The Free Art Agreement/ El Tratado de Libre Cultura / Guillermo Gómez-Peña -- Dissed and disconnected : notes on present ills and future dreams / B. Ruby Rich.