{"product_id":"provoking-the-freeport-magic-isbn-9783956796227","title":"Provoking the Freeport Magic","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow practices that enact the art of constructing open secrets in markets can be mobilized to unfold magic making.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat is magic? And what can it do? In this book, Jessica Backsell interrogates the magic of the art world and culture’s stubborn habit of foregrounding art as representative of an alternative value system. Through the empirical example of the freeport—luxury warehouses where valuable art is stored for preservation and taxation purposes—Backsell explores the implications of understanding the art world through contingent entanglements and practices. Examining the contested site of the freeport, Backsell addresses the dichotomous “culture v. capitalism” debate by showing how magic is not an innate and mysterious quality. Rather, it is a practice, a central yet unexplored element of curatorial toolboxes, that unfolds through what Backsell denotes as the enactment of “conspicuous withdrawal.” This insight, she argues, sheds new light and understanding on broader political issues in contemporary market society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCopublished by Stockholm School of EconomicsPrologue \u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: Introduction \u003cbr\u003eChapter 2: The Empirical Case \u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA brief history of the contemporary Luxury Freeport \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe logistical hub to rule them all \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA new financial center? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eObfuscating practices \u0026amp; open secrets \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003eChapter 3: Theoretical framework \u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTranslations—excavating, representing, and concealing \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAgnogenesis—or practices of constructing non-knowledge \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn ontology of public and open secrets \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe art of redaction \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSummary of conceptual framework \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003eChapter 4: Methodology \u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOntology \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEpistemology \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to study things that lack visuality \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe practice of zooming in and out \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMaterial collected and approaches \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInterviews \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDocument analysis \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVideo analysis \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpatial observation \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotetaking \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe provoked freeport \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProvocation as method \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReflections on data collection \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWrite up \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003eChapter 5: Introduction to the articles \u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArticle 1: \"Nomos of the Freeport\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArticle 2: “Probing the Free Matrix” \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArticle 3: “Hiding in Plain Sight” \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArticle 4: “The Act of Redaction” \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003eChapter 6: Open secrets in markets \u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eQuestion 1: How to conceptualize the role of obfuscating practice\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eQuestion 2: The tensions between visibility and invisibility \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTensions between revelation and concealment \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTensions between the public and the private \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTensions between knowledge and non-knowledge \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eQuestion 3: The effect of open secrets in markets \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOpen secrets and the effect on practice of exchange \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Act of Redaction and effects on normalizing and representation practices \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe presence of open secrets in markets \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003eChapter 7: Conceptual contributions \u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConstructivist market studies: open secrets, redaction and nonqualculation \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOrganization \u0026amp; Space: the role of nonclosure and a materiality of agnogenesis \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003eEpilogue \u003cbr\u003eBibliography\"Dr. Backsell’s book investigates the complex dynamics between concealment and revelation in ways that make the work relevant beyond the case of freeports. A must-read for anyone interested in understanding the contemporary world of art but also of politics and markets.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Paolo Quattrone, Professor of Accounting, Governance, and Society Alliance Manchester Business School\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"When Marcel Duchamp conceived ‘non-retinal art,’ he likely did not envision paintings blocked from sight, buried in bombproof bunkers, sacrificed to rapacious market-gods. When Yves Klein sold receipts for an 'immaterial zone' in exchange for gold, he preemptively mocked today’s special economic zones. Backsell’s freeport book is for our times!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Reilly Smethurst, Research Fellow Politecnico di Milano\u003c\/b\u003eJessica Inez Backsell conducts her PhD studies at Stockholm School of Economics where she also teaches matters of spatial and legal construction of markets. She explores the organization of markets from a practice perspective, drawing upon theories from both classical anthropology and postmodern philosophy. She also takes part in spurring dialogues between artists and intellectuals through her engagement in SSE Art Initiative.","brand":"Sternberg Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304661340389,"sku":"NP9783956796227","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9783956796227.jpg?v=1767735187","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/provoking-the-freeport-magic-isbn-9783956796227","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}