List of Illustrations  ix

Preface  xiii

Acknowledgments  svii

Introduction: The Contemporaneity Question / Terry Smith  1

Part I: The Politics of Temporality  

1. Contemporaneity between Modernity and Postmodernity / Antonio Negri  23

2. A Cultural Conjuncture in India: Art into Documentary / Geeta Kapur  30

3. Some Rotten Shoots from the Seeds of Time / Rosalind Krauss  60

4. The Topology of Contemporary Art / Boris Groys  71

Part 2: Multiple Modernities  

5. On the Contingency of Modernity and the Persistence of Canons / Monica Amor  83

6. Politics of Flexible Subjectivity: The Event Work of Lygia Clark / Suely Rolnik  97

7. Double Modernity, Para-Modernity / Jonathan Hay  113

8. "Particular Time, Specific Space, My Truth": Total Modernity in Chinese Contemporary Art / Gao Minglu  133

9. The Perils of Unilateral Power: Neomodernist Metaphors and the New Global Order / Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie  165

10. Analogue: 1998-2007 / Zoe Leonard, Introduced by Helen Molesworth  187

Part 3: Afterworlds  

11. The Postcolonial Constellation: Contemporary Art in a State of Permanent Transition / Okwui Enwezor  207

12. From Emigration to E-migration: Contemporaneity and the Former Second World / Nancy Condee  235

13. Aftermath: Value and Violence in Contemporary South African Art / Colin Richards  250

14. A Case of Being "Contemporary": Conditions, Spheres, and Narratives of Contemporary Chinese Art / Wu Hung  290

Part 4: Cotemporalities  

15. Emancipation or Attachments? The Different Futures of Politics / Bruno Latour  309

16. The Return of the Sixties in Contemporary Art and Criticism / James Meyer  324

17. Introduction to Info-Aesthetics / Lev Manovich  333

18. The Giftshop at the End of History / McKenzie Wark  345

19. Spatial Aesthetics: Rethinking the Contemporary / Nikos Papastergiadis  363

References  383

Contributors  413

Index  417

Antonio Negri

Geeta Kapur

Rosalind Krauss

Boris Groys

Monica Amor

Suely Rolnik

Jonathan Hay

Gao Minglu

Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie

Zoe Leonard

Helen Molesworth

Okwui Enwezor

Nancy Condee

Colin Richards

Wu Hung

Bruno Latour

James Meyer

Lev Manovich

Mckenzie Wark

Nikos Papastergiadis

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