Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Preface xiii
5. Acknowledgments xvii
6. Introduction: The Contemporaneity Question 1
7. PART 1: THE POLITICS OF TEMPORALITY
8. 1. Contemporaneity between Modernity and Postmodernity 23
9. 2. A Cultural Conjuncture in India: Art into Documentary 30
10. 3. Some Rotten Shoots from the Seeds of Time 60
11. 4. The Topology of Contemporary Art 71
12. PART 2 : MULTIPLE MODERNITIES
13. 5. On the Contingency of Modernity and the Persistence of Canons 83
14. 6. Politics of Flexible Subjectivity: The Event Work of Lygia Clark 97
15. 7. Double Modernity, Para-Modernity 113
16. 8. ‘‘Particular Time, Specific Space, My Truth’’: Total Modernity in Chinese Contemporary Art 133
17. 9. The Perils of Unilateral Power: Neomodernist Metaphors and the New Global Order 165
18. 10. Analogue, 1998–2007 INTRODUCED BY HELEN MOLESWORTH 187
19. PART 3: AFTERWORLDS
20. 11. The Postcolonial Constellation: Contemporary Art in a State of Permanent Transition 207
21. 12. From Emigration to E-migration: Contemporaneity and the Former Second World 235
22. 13. Aftermath: Value and Violence in Contemporary South African Art 250
23. 14. A Case of Being ‘‘Contemporary’’: Conditions, Spheres, and Narratives of Contemporary Chinese Art 290
24. PART 4: COTEMPORALITIES
25. 15. Emancipation or Attachments? The Di√erent Futures of Politics 309
26. 16. The Return of the Sixties in Contemporary Art and Criticism 324
27. 17. Introduction to Info-Aesthetics 333
28. 18. The Giftshop at the End of History 345
29. 19. Spatial Aesthetics: Rethinking the Contemporary 363
30. References 383
31. Contributors 413
32. Index 417