Antinomies of Art and Culture

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

Terry Smith, Okwui Enwezor, and Nancy Condee, eds.