Fictions and Frictions:
The Power and Politics of Narrative
Graduate Art History Student Symposium
at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
March 1-2, 2019
Selected Related Readings
Azoulay, Ariella. “Rethinking the Political.” In Civil Imagination: A Political Ontology of Photography. London: Verso, 2015.
Boggs, Grace Lee. The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012.
Butler, Judith. Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015.
Cabañas, Kaira M. The Myth of Nouveau Réalisme: Art and the Performative in Postwar France. Yale UP, 2013.
Cahan, Susan E. Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power. Duke University Press, 2016.
Demos, T.J. “Out of Beirut: Mobile Histories and the Politics of Fiction,” “The Right of Opacity: On the Otolith Group's Nervus Rerum.” In The Migrant Image. Durham: Duke UP, 2013.
Doyle, Jennifer. Campus Sex and Campus Security. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press: Semiotext(e) 2015.
D’Souza, Aruna. Whitewalling: Art, Race & Protest in 3 Acts. New York: Badlands Unlimited, 2018.
Feldman, Hannah. From a Nation Torn: Decolonizing Art and Representation in France, 1945-1962. Duke UP, 2014.
Harris, Michael. “The Language of Appropriation: Fantasies and Fallacies.” In Colored Pictures: Race and Visual Representation. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2003: 188-223, 271-73.
McMillan, Uri. “Introduction” and “Mammy Memory.” In Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance. NYU Press, 2015.
Moten, Fred. “Not In Between.” In Black and Blur (consent not to be a single being.) Duke UP, 2017.
Muñoz, José Esteban. Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics. Minneapolis: Minnesota UP, 1999.
Nixon, Rob. Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2011.
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. “Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading, or, You’re so Paranoid, You Probably Think This Essay Is About You.” In Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity. Duke UP, 2003.
Seymour, Nicole. Strange Natures: Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination. Urbana: U of Illinois Press, 2015.
Tagg, John. “The Archiving Machine; or, the Camera and the Filing Cabinet.” Grey Room 47 (Spring 2012): 24-37.
Tsing, Anna. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2015.