The politics of visibility : Lurie and Ranciere -- Art and the mining of diamonds : Kentridge, Modisakeng and what is meant by politics -- The politics of the witness : Georges Gittoes -- Virulent nationalism and the politics of offense : the NEA -- Literature and the politics of the Truth Commission : Dorfman and Coetzee -- Identity politics in a consumerist world -- Art market politics : Manet to Banksy -- Autonomy as negotiation : Mozart reconsidered -- Film, the individual and the collective.