Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Content 7
3. Preface 9
4. Aesthetic Temporalities Today: Present, Presentness, Re-Presentation 11
5. 1. The Global Spaces of the Present
6. The Global Promise of Contemporary Art 17
7. Present, Presence, Presentation 31
8. Visible/Unvisible Present 39
9. Exhibiting Earth History. The Politics of Visualization in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century 57
10. Painting, Photography, Polychronicity: Lang Jingshan’s Portrait of Zhang Shanzi 67
11. Temporality, Oríkì and Nigeria’s Contemporary Art 87
12. The Presentness of a Minority. Notes on the Indian Twelver Shia 101
13. 2. The Present in Art. Perspectives from Art History
14. Time and Form: The “Unthought Known” 113
15. Rhythmical Presentness. On the ‘Rhythmology’ of Perception. Maldiney—Cézanne—Rilke 129
16. Temporal Concepts of the Present and their Aesthetic Negotiation in Black Arts Movement and ‘Black Atlantic’ 143
17. The Aesthetics of Coexistence as Ongoing 169
18. “There is first of all the doubtful contemporaneity of the present to itself.” The Spectral Present of Control and the Strategies of Performance 183
19. 3. The Presentation of Presentness and Presence
20. Presentations as Aesthetic Temporalities 197
21. Extreme Situations of the Political. Hannah Arendt’s Article “The Concentration Camps” (1948) 207
22. “Fortrollende Gegenwart:” Psychopathology and Epical Present Tense in Georg Heym’s Der Irre and Der Dieb 219
23. Now-time Explosion. The Experience of Time in Social Revolution 239
24. Histories of the Present—a Media Philosophical Approach 249
25. Biographical Notes 267