Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. About the Series – Sur la collection – Zur Buchreihe IX
4. Introduction
5. Preface to the Crisis and Critique of the Avant-Garde 1
6. A Century of Crisis
7. Cartographies of Crisis 25
8. Capital Crises
9. Vienna’s Delay in Glass 55
10. The Vestiges of Violence 79
11. A Note on Working Through Crisis 97
12. Marxism without Guarantees 113
13. Institutions of Crisis
14. Rhythm as Saviour? 129
15. “Very Up-to-Date Theatre Exhibition” 147
16. Dancing with Garments/Costumes, Masks and Space 167
17. Freedom in Unfreedom 207
18. A Theory of the Crises of the Avant-Garde 235
19. Critical Times
20. Marinetti’s Temporal Primitivism 261
21. Imagining the Future in Liminal Times 281
22. Change Must Come 297
23. The Experimental Avant-Garde Art of Franciszka and Stefan Themerson 313
24. The Groupe des 7 337
25. Languages of Crisis
26. Mallarmé, Breton et la crise 363
27. Calculating Crisis 385
28. The Enduring War of the Poets 405
29. The Language of Crisis and Language in Crisis 423
30. (Dis)orientations 441
31. Building on/from Crisis
32. The Glass Chain’s Spiritual Revolution 459
33. Kosovel’s Tragedy on the Ocean 481
34. L’artiste comme prototype et instigateur de l’Homme nouveau 497
35. Crisis of the Contemporary 521
36. Coda
37. Pessoa’s “Ultimatum” 537
38. List of Contributors 563
39. Index 565