Machine generated contents note: Notes on Contributors. -- Acknowledgements. -- List of Images. -- Introduction. -- Part I: Realigned Art Worlds: art/agency/globalism. -- Introduction (Zoya Kocur). -- 1.Globalism or Nationalism? (Cai Guoqiang, Zhang Huan, and Xu Bing in New York, Xiaoping Lin). -- 2. Linking Theory, Politics and Art (Marina GrzجŒinicجپ). -- 3. Art, Agency and Hermetic Imagination (Jean Fisher). -- 4. Constitutive Effects: The Techniques of the Curator (Simon Sheikh). -- 5. Do Images Have a Gender? (David Joselit). -- 6. Rethinking the F Word: A Review of Activist Art on the Internet (Mary Flanagan and Suyin Looui). -- Part II: (in)Visible architectures: space/geopolitics/power. -- Introduction (Zoya Kocur). -- 7. La Leccioجپn Arquitectoجپnica de Schwarzenegger (The Arquitectural Lesson of Arnold Schwarzenegger) (Cuauhtemoc Medina). -- 8. Checkpoints: The Split Sovereign and the One-Way Mirror (Eyal Weizman). -- 9. Black Tents (Cج§agla Hadimioglu). -- 10. Subterranean Modernities: The Spanish City and its Visual Underground (Juan F. Egea). -- 11. Visualizing Antarctica as a Place in Time (Kathryn Yusoff). -- 12. Images of Untranslatability in the US War on Terror (Rosalind C. Morris). -- 13. An Immense and Unexpected Field of Action: Webcams. Surveillance and everyday life (J. Macgregor Wise). -- Part III: Mediated Bodies: representation/circulation/self. -- Introduction (Zoya Kocur). -- 14. Michael Jackson, Television, and Post-Op Disasters (Macarena Goجپmez-
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