Finally, to little Lenny: may he always carry the sword of Manjushri.
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INDEX
Abramovic´, Marina, 76–78, 81–82, 88, 196–97, 264
—Art Must Be Beautiful, Artist Must Be Beautiful, 77–78
—Rhythm 0, 76–77, 79, 129, 198
Abu Ghraib, 29, 31, 39–41, 61, 63, 68–71
Acker, Kathy, 67
ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), 27
Adams, Carol J.:
—The Pornography of Meat, 182
—The Sexual Politics of Meat, 182
Adorno, Theodor, 58, 256
—“Lyric Poetry and Society,” 241
Afghanistan War, 40–41
Ahwesh, Peggy, 265
AIDS, 27, 198–99, 223
Akerman, Chantal, 264
—Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, 73
Alcoholics Anonymous, 126, 155
Algerian War, 240, 255
Allen, Woody, 196
Allison, Dorothy, 67
Al Qaeda, 43, 64
Ambuhl, Specialist Megan, 68
American Academy of Pediatrics, 54
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 54
American Family Association, 53–54
American Idol, 29
Amnesty International, 75
Antigone, 71
Antin, Eleanor, 264
—Carving: A Traditional Sculpture, 219
Arbus, Diane, 127, 141–44, 239
—Revelations, 142
Arendt, Hannah, 41, 47–49
—“Ideology and Terror,” 107
—On Violence, 164, 265
Aristotle, 10–11, 23–24, 63, 105
—Poetics, 23
Arivaca, Ariz., 36
Artaud, Antonin, 5–6, 9, 15–30, 42, 72, 260, 265–66
—“The Nerve Meter,” 28, 213
—The Theater and Its Double, 15–18, 27, 214, 266
—“The Theater and the Plague,” 116–17
—To Have Done with the Judgment of God, 213–14
Arthur, Paul, 40
Athey, Ron, 21, 116, 198–99
Auschwitz concentration camp, 256, 257
Austin, J. L., How to Do Things with Words, 144–46
Bacon, Francis, 6, 8–9, 18, 20, 47, 114, 131, 143, 149–50, 175, 176, 184, 187, 189, 220–21, 229, 231, 239–41, 248–49, 255, 261–62
—Blood on Pavement, 263
—Crucifixion, 178, 179–80
—Jet of Water, 263
—Three Studies for a Crucifixion, 178
—Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, 230
Badiou, Alain, 133
Baraka, Amiri, Dutchman, 243
Barthes, Roland, The Neutral, 13–14, 268–69
Bataille, Georges, 17, 72, 101, 184–85
—Story of the Eye, 184
Baudrillard, Jean, 29
BBC World News, 158–59
Beauvoir, Simone de, “Must We Burn Sade?,” 17
Beckett, Samuel, 209, 214
—Waiting for Godot, 111
Benjamin, Walter, 7
Berger, John, 239
—“Francis Bacon and Walt Disney,” 178–79
Beuys, Joseph, 98
Bey, Hakim, 45
Bhopal disaster (1984), 157–59
Bible, 133–34, 206–9
Bishop, Amy, 80–82
Black Arts Movement, 3
Blake, William, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 133
Blanco, Governor Kathleen, 160
Blocker, Jane, “Aestheticizing Risk in Wartime: The SLA to Iraq,” 129
BlueServoSM, 35–37
Bonanno, Mike (pseud.), 159
Bourgeois, Louise, 220
Bowles, Jane, 83–85, 264
—“Everything is Nice,” 84–85
—“Plain Pleasures,” 83–84
Bradford, William, 135
Brecht, Bertolt, 23–26, 139, 251, 266
Breedlove, Lynn, 88
Breton, André, 19
Brewer, Governor Jan, 36
Bridgewater State Hospital, 126–27
Brigham Young University, 93, 94, 169
Brontë, Charlotte, 192
Brown, Campbell, 132
Buddhism, 7, 8, 11, 16, 44, 61–63, 155, 173, 174, 207–9, 249, 251, 268
Burden, Chris, 71, 108–16
—Deadman, 112
—Shoot, 108–10, 111
—Through the Night Softly, 114–15, 203
—Trans-Fixed, 110
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