Ari Adut is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. He holds postgraduate degrees from École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and the University of Chicago, where he has also taught. His research has received support from the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies.
Introduction
1. The disruptive publicity of transgression
2. The fall of Oscar Wilde
3. The American presidency, imperial and imperiled
4. Investigating corruption in France
5. Sex and the American public sphere
6. Provocation in art
Conclusion.
