AIDS: Cultural Analysis, Cultural Activism (BOOK)

Crimp, Douglas. (1988). AIDS: Cultural Analysis, Cultural Activism. Cambridge: MIT Press.
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The literature on AIDS has attempted to teach us the "facts" about this new disease or to provide a narrative account of scientific discovery and developing public health policy. But AIDS has precipitated a crisis that is not primarily medical, or even social and political; AIDS has precipitated a crisis of signification the "meaning" of AIDS is hotly contested in all of the discourses that conceptualize it and seek to respond to it. AIDS: Cultural Analysis/Cultural Activism is the first book on the subject that takes this battle over meaning as its premise.

Douglas Crimp is coeditor of the journal October, art critic, and AIDS activist.