"This publication is in most part a collection of papers, conversations and art and design works presented at the Speculations on the Cultural Organization of Civility symposium organized by SKOR in Octorber 2010" -- p. 10.

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Includes bibliographical references.

Search into the nature of society / Marc Bijl -- Too careful : contemporary art's public making / Andrea Phillips -- We're not all in this together : public space and antagonism in the wake of capitalist realism / Mark Fisher -- Illness as metaphor in modern architecture / Beatriz Colomina -- Waiting room / Elmgreen & Dragset -- The SKOR files / Nils van Beek -- Co-producing citizens / Steven de Waal interviewed by Andrea Phillips -- Manifesto for Maintenance art 1969! Proposal for an exhibition CARE / Mierle Laderman Ukeles -- Grave new world / Sally Talant -- Mediation and art production in hospital environments / Mari Linnman -- The fifth season / Marien van der Meer interviewed by Huib Haye van der Werf -- Compromise is grey / Edi Rama interviewed by Fulya Erdemci -- Live to be legend / Robert Sember -- The capacity to act / Anton Vidokle interviewed by Markus Miessen -- Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty-four? / AA Bronson -- Who is a healthy subject? / Dmitri Vilensky interviewed by Merijn Oudenampsen -- Planet Alzheimer / Jurgen Bey & Emeline Cosijnse -- Staging discourse : thoughts and experiments as to how to spatially organize a conference / Markus Miessen & Magnus Nilsson -- Talk talk talk : in search of the presuppositions of interconnected localized and situated vocabularies / Mika Hannula -- What are we doing? Alfredo Jaar and the SKOR Symposium -- Actors, agents and attendants : speculations on the cultural organization of civility : symposium report.