This article develops an account of demand-making and provides a novel framework for
evaluating the demands and strategies of social movements. It explores three features of …

This article argues the importance of considering wageless life and related post-wage
regimes of work in the study of creative and cultural labour. Such consideration is necessary …

Stephanie Springgay's concept of feltness—which emerges from affect theory, queer and
feminist theory, and feminist conceptions of more-than-human entanglements—is a set of …

How do you keep the cracks in Starry Night from spreading? How do you prevent artworks
made of hugs or candies from disappearing? How do you render a fading photograph …

In Speculation as a Mode of Production: Forms of Value Subjectivity in Art and Capital,
Marina Vishmidt offers a new perspective on one of the main categories of capitalist life in …

This article elaborates the art-theoretical concept of 'the contemporary'along with formal
differences between contemporary music and contemporary art. Contemporary art emerges …

Enmeshed in the materiality of caregiving, becoming a mother changes how one relates to
the world and others. These changes involve how a mother as subject is defined by others …

The last forty years of financialization have laid the groundwork for a resurgence of fascist
cultural politics. This article expands Hito Steyerl's notion of derivative fascism by placing it …

This article unspools the history of nylon as a commodity between two Black feminist cultural
expressions, Senga Nengudi's RSVP series and Audre Lorde's Zami. The first popular …

Throughout the history of the United States, work-based social welfare practices have
served to affirm the moral value of work. In the late nineteenth century this representational …