Haunted Housing: Eco-Vanguardism, Eviction, and the Biopolitics of Sustainability in New Orleans Unavailable

Yates McKee is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Art History, Columbia University. An alumnus of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and frequent participant at 16 Beaver Group, his writing has appeared in venues including The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, Parkett, and October. He is an associate editor of Nongovernmental Politics (Zone, 2007), and coeditor, with Meg McLagan, of The Visual Cultures of Nongovernmental Politics (Zone, forthcoming). He is at work on a genealogy of sus- tainability in ecological art, design, and activism since the 1970s, as well as a study of the post-secular in contemporary art, with special reference to the “profane illuminations” of Paul Chan.