Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Prelude. On Motivations ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. One. Personal Collection and the Museum Form: Racial Capitalism, Settler Colonialism, and the Legacies of the Homestead Strike of 1892 33
7. Two. Scientific Management and Conceptual Art: The Invention of the Artist Manager 62
8. Three. Whiteness as Property and Found Object Art: Collecting and Canonizing Marcel Duchamp 92
9. Four. Whiteness and the New: Neoliberalism and the Building of the Archive for New Poetry 118
10. Five. Colonially Bound, Digitally Free: On the Distance between Object and Image 146
11. Six. Neoliberal Aesthetics: The Legacies of White Modernism 178
12. Coda. On Inoperation and Glory 208
13. Notes 215
14. Bibliography 273
15. Index 295