Beyond recognition : representation, power, and culture /

Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-369) and index.

Craig Owens: " The indignity og speaking for others" / Simon Watney -- Part I. Toward a Theory of Postmodernism -- Part II. Sexuality/Power -- Part III. Cultures -- Part IV. Pedagogy.

Craig Owens: "The Indignity of Speaking for Others" / 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 Spectacular Ruse -- Posing. Outlaws: Gay Men in Feminism -- Part III. Cultures. Politics of Coppelia -- Sects and Language -- The Critic as Realist -- "The Indignity of Speaking for Others": An Imaginary Interview -- The Problem with Puerilism -- Analysis Logical and Ideological -- Improper Names -- Interview with Craig Owens / 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.

Essays written by Owens over the 15 years he was writing, divided into four sections: Towards a theory of postmodernism, Sexuality/power, Cultures, and Pedagogy. These latter two indicate the scope of his political commitment.