Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Series Preface vii
4. First Introduction 1
5. Second Introduction 5
6. The Seminars
7. 1. The national situation 13
8. 2. Translation 23
9. 3. The prehistory of globalization 37
10. 4. Hybridity 51
11. 5. Temporality 63
12. 6. Postcolonial narratives 73
13. 7. Neoliberalism 85
14. 8. Four failures of the seminars 97
15. 9. Universality 109
16. Assessments
17. Globalism/Globalization 129
18. Letter on globalization 138
19. Letter on globalization 140
20. Hybridization and the geopolitics of art 142
21. The oxymoron of global art 146
22. Circulate, but without differences! 148
23. Academic difficulties with “convergence” : globalization and contemporary art 152
24. Art, globalization, and imperialism 158
25. Narratives of belonging: on the relation of the art institution and the changing nation-state 161
26. Originality, universality, and other modernist myths 166
27. Contemporary art, “contemporaneity,” and world art history 171
28. Speaking of modern and contemporary asian art 176
29. A distant view 181
30. Globalization and transnational modernism 183
31. Art history and architecture’s aporia 188
32. So what might be solved here? 195
33. Perspectives on scale: From the atomic to the universal 200
34. A remark on globalization in (east) Central Europe 205
35. Globalization and (contemporary) art 209
36. Thinking through shards of china 214
37. In and out of the local 218
38. What’s wrong with global art? 222
39. global art history and transcultural studies 226
40. looking for something 229
41. nomadic territories and times 237
42. Dead parrot society 241
43. Geoaesthetic hierarchies: geography, geopolitics, global art, and coloniality 245
44. Afterword 251
45. Notes on the contributors 285
46. Index 291