Chapter 2 Interventionists 
"The SCP manifests this opposition by performing specially adapted plays directly in front of these cameras. They use their visibility – through public appearances, interviews with the media, and the website – to explode the myth that only those who are “guilty of something” are opposed to being surveilled by unknown eyes" (58) --> Although surveillance cameras are everywhere, I have never considered them a violation of privacy because I simply do not think about them. However, I find the Surveillance Camera Project's protest of these cameras amusing as they perform plays in front of the cameras.

"We encounter the icon-twisting logic of credit card exorcism performed in front of astonished tourists, and listen to a gospel choir made up of “recovering preachers’ kids” singing anti-Starbucks anthems at the cash register of the $5 latte. We watch as the defense of a community garden is turned into an Off-Broadway hit and join with the Reverend as he preaches love and peace to the crowds that gathered spontaneously in Union Square after the attacks of September 11" (60).--> I also believe that society is completely drenched in consumerism as evidenced by the overpriced and overrated caffeine drinks sold at Starbucks and the use of Disney characters to sell miscellaneous products from toothbrushes to comforters.

Chapter 3 Seeing Power p. 55-82

"Our understanding of art and politics is rooted in the material, but so are our professional ambitions, our cravings for particular kinds of food, our sense of our place in the world, and even, as we’ve seen, the content of our deepest fantasies. How we understand the world is shaped by how we experience it."--> We only understand the cultural parts of the world because of how it is presented to us. Unlike the scientific part, the cultural part is interpreted in thousands of ways, shaping our experiences with politics, humanistic ideals, and how we interpret our dreams. Without culture, our identities are shaken and we question who we are relative to the world

"The conception of the writer’s function which the young Marx worked out is worth recalling. 'The writer,' he said, 'naturally must make money in order to live and write, but he should not under any circumstances live and write in order to make money … The writer by no means looks on his work as a means. It is an end in itself and so little a means in the eyes of himself and of others that if necessary he sacrifices his existence to the existence of his work … The first condition of freedom of the press is that it is not a business activity.” (58).-->In theory, writers should write for the sake of writing and philosophy; however, writing, if done correctly is a lucrative business and it is rare to find writers such as Herman Melville, Percy Shelly, and Toni Morrison, who dedicated years of their lives to perfect one piece and interweave idioms, metaphors, and allusions.

Chapter 7 Seeing Power p. 147-164

"Class tensions around the production of space—from race riots to gentrification to the battle over public housing—are as crucial to the production of meaning as the successful spaces I described in the previous chapter. Physical sites provide the foundation for the network of infrastructures that make us who we are" (152).--> Spaces have meaning and define power. Just as artists care what works curators display in museums, citizens care was churches are allowed in their city, if schools are diverse, and if housing is affordable. Changing the prices of housing and manipulating accessibility decrease the diversity of people who inhabit spaces.

"Tactical interventions allow for a constant disrupting of the circuits of power. Anarchist in a postmodern fashion, the tactical operates ever from the outside, lampooning and critiquing the modus operandi of capitalism while simultaneously depending on that relationship for the production of its meaning." (153).-->Works like the Critical Art Ensemble are creative in their activist methods. Instead of using pickets and sit-ins, they convince individuals to participate by giving them the option to participate in the manner that they find appropriate. By giving individuals a sense of 'power,' they are more likely to intervene in public issues. Thus, groups like the CAE effectively intervene in socio-political issues from the outside by critiquing and revealing the reality of several situations.