Charles Bernstein
M/E/A/N/I/N/G 25th Anniversary Edition
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This is an unusual moment of global economic crisis, failure of capitalism and of progressive political movements, a moment of political impasse, and of generational shift, following upon a series of traumatic political events and a decade of war. Methods of communication have changed since we began our project 25 years ago and concepts of privacy and individuality seem to be in a process of radical transformation.
Our 25th anniversary issue centers around two themes: the impact of public trauma on art and art critical practice, and the nature of privacy for the artist or critic working in the age of social networking and global spectacle.
The first issue of M/E/A/N/I/N/G: A Journal of Contemporary Art Issues, was published in December 1986. We published 20 issues biannually over ten years. In 2000, M/E/A/N/I/N/G: An Anthology of Artists’ Writings, Theory, and Criticism was published by Duke University Press. In 2002 we began to publish M/E/A/N/I/N/G Online and have published four previous online issues. The M/E/A/N/I/N/G archive from 1986 to 2002 is in the collection of the Beinecke Library at Yale University.
To address our themes in this online issue, we invited a wide spectrum of artists, art historians, and poets, some who had written for our journal before and many new artists and writers whose work we have encountered in recent years. We are proud to continue our commitment to maintaining an open, non-profit space for independent writing about art.
We are honored to publish the responses we have received, people really wrote what they wanted, what they felt, each very individually, many clearly inspired and energized by the Occupy Wall Street movement, which began September 17th in Lower Manhattan and has rapidly sent a wave of optimism around the world.
Susan Bee and Mira Schor
New York City, November 18 2011
Table of Contents
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Suzanne Anker
Eleanor Antin
Susan Bee
Bill Berkson
Charles Bernstein
Nayland Blake
Anney Bonney
Jackie Brookner
Joyce Burstein
Sharon L. Butler
Tom Butter
Anna Chave
Daryl Chin
Jennifer Coates
Maureen Connor
Patricia Cronin
Jennifer Dalton
G. Roger Denson
Dubravka Đjurić
Bailey Doogan
Johanna Drucker
Noah Fischer
Hermine Ford
Joe Fyfe
Joy Garnett
Andrea Geyer
Vanalyne Green
Mimi Gross
Julie Harrison
Eleanor Heartney
Susanna Heller
David Humphrey
Julia Jacquette
Amelia Jones
Shirley Kaneda
Vincent Katz
Joyce Kozloff
Rachel Levitsky
Ellen K. Levy
Ligorano/Reese
Greg Lindquist
Judith Linhares
Mary Lucier
Lenore Malen
Ann McCoy
Ann Messner
Robin Mitchell
Erik Moskowitz and Amanda Trager
Beverly Naidus
Joseph Nechvatal
Craig Olson
Our Literal Speed
Alix Pearlstein
Sheila Pepe
Dushko Petrovich
Nick Piombino
William Powhida
Nancy Princenthal
Melissa Ragona and Abigail Child
Hilary Robinson
Kara L. Rooney
Bradley Rubenstein
Raphael Rubinstein
Caitlin Rueter and Suzanne Stroebe
Carolee Schneemann
Mira Schor
Francie Shaw
Alexandria Smith
Buzz Spector
Misko Šuvaković
Jeremy Sigler
Anne Swartz
Aldrin Valdez
Marjorie Vecchio
Roger White
Daniel Wiener
Faith Wilding
Tom Winchester
