Beyond Recognition: Representation, Power, and Culture (Paperback, Revised)

Preface 
Craig Owens: "The Indignity of Speaking for Others" by 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 Specular Ruse 
 Posing 
 Outlaws: Gay Men in Feminism 

PART III • CULTURES
 Politics of Coppelia 
 Sects and Language 
 The Critic as Realist 
 "The Indignity of Spe'aking for Others": An Imaginary Interview 
 The Problem with Puerilism 
 Analysis Logical and Ideological 
 Improper Names 
 Interview with Craig Owens by 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 
 Bibliography 
 Index