Provoking the Freeport Magic: Art Assemblage in Late Capitalism coffee over a hundred images

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Reverse Hallucinations in the Archipelago reflects on the changing role of colonial natural history collections in the current ecological crisis called the Anthropocene

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Provoking the Freeport Magic: Art Assemblage in Late Capitalism coffee over a hundred imagesWhat is magic and what can it do? In this book, Jessica Backsell investigates the magic of the art world and cultures persistent tendency to present art as emblematic of an alternative value system. Using the empirical example of the freeport luxury storage facilities where valuable artworks are kept for preservation and tax purposes Backsell examines the implications of viewing the art world through its contingent entanglements and practices.