Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction -- Art of Social Cooperation -- American Framework -- 2. Cooperation Goes Public -- Consequences of a Gesture and 100 Victories/10,000 Tears -- Interview Daniel Joseph Martinez, artist, and Gregg M. Horowitz, philosophy professor -- Chicago Urban Ecology Action Group -- Follow-Up Interview Naomi Beckwith, participant -- 3. Museum, Education, Cooperation -- Memory of Surfaces -- Interview Ernesto Pujol, artist, and David Henry, museum educator -- 4. Overview -- Temporary Coalitions, Mobilized Communities, and Dialogue as Art -- Interview Grant Kester, art historian -- 5. Social Vision and a Cooperative Community -- Project Row Houses -- Interview Rick Lowe, artist, and Mark J. Stern, professor of social history and urban studies -- 6. Participation, Planning, and a Cooperative Film -- Blot Out the Sun -- Interview Harrell Fletcher, artist, and Ethan Seltzer, professor of urban studies and planning -- Blot Out the Sun -- Follow-Up Interview Jay Dykeman, collaborator -- 7. Education Art -- Catedra Arte de Conducta -- Interview Tania Bruguera, artist -- Catedra Arte de Conducta -- Follow-Up Interview Claire Bishop, art historian -- 8. Political Alphabet -- Arabic Alphabet -- Interview Wendy Ewald, artist, and Sondra Farganis, political scientist -- 9. Crossing Borders -- Transnational Community-Based Production, Cooperative Art, and Informal Trade Networks -- Interview Pedro Lasch, artist, and Teddy Cruz, architect -- 10. Spirituality and Cooperation -- Unburning Freedom Hall and The Packer School Project -- Interview Brett Cook, artist, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles, artist -- Seer Project -- Interview Lee Mingwei, artist -- 11. Interactive Internet Communication -- White Glove Tracking -- Interview Evan Roth, artist White Glove Tracking -- Follow-Up Interview Jonah Peretti, contagious media pioneer.