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Introduction / Alexander Dumbadze and Suzanne Hudson -- 1. The contemporary and globalization -- Worlds apart: contemporary art, globalization, and the rise of biennials / Tim Griffin -- "Our" contemporaneity? / Terry Smith -- The historicity of the contemporary is now! / Jean-Philippe Antoine -- 2. Art after modernism and postmodernism -- Elite art in an age of populism / Julian Stallabrass -- "Of adversity we live!" / Monica Amor -- Making it work: artists and contemporary art in China / Pauline J. Yao -- 3. Formalism -- Form struggles / Jan Verwoert -- Formalism redefinied / Anne Ellegood -- The world in plain view: form in the service of the global / Joan Kee -- 4. Medium specificity -- The (re)animation of medium specificity in contemporary art / Sabeth Buchmann -- Medium aspecificity/autopoietic form / Irene V. Small -- Specificity / Richard Shiff -- 5. Art and technology -- Test sites: fabrication / Michelle Kuo -- Inhabiting the technosphere: art and technology beyond technical invention / Ina Blom -- Conceptual art 2.0 / David Joselit -- 6. Biennials -- In defense of biennials / Massimiliano Gioni -- Curating in heterogeneous worlds / Geeta Kapur -- Biennial culture and the aesthetics of experience / Caroline A. Jones -- 7. Participation -- Participation / Liam Gillick and Maria Lind -- The ripple effect: "participation" as an expanded field / Johanna Burton -- Publicity and complicity in contemporary art / Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy -- 8. Activism -- Activism / Andrea Giunta -- Knit dissent / Julia Bryan-Wilson -- Light from a distant star: a meditation on art, agency, and politics / Raqs Media Collective -- 9. Agency -- Participation in art: 10 theses / Juliane Rebentisch -- Fusions of powers: four models of agency in the field of contemporary art, ranked unapologetically in order of preference / Tirdad Zolghadr -- Life full of holes: contemporary art and bare life / T.J. Demos -- 10. The rise of fundamentalism -- Monotheism à la mode / Sven Lütticken -- Freedom's just another word / Terri Weissman -- On the frontline: the politics of terrorism in contemporary Pakistani art / Atteqa Ali -- 11. Judgment -- Judgment's troubled objects / João Ribas -- A producer's journal, or judgment a go-go / Frank Smigiel -- After criticism / Lane Relyea -- 12. Markets -- Globalization and commercialization of the art market / Olav Velthuis -- Three perspectives on the market / Mihai Pop, Sylvia Kouvali, and Andrea Rosen -- Untitled / Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri -- 13. Art schools and the academy -- Lifelong learning / Katy Siegel -- Art without institutions / Anton Vidokle -- Will the academy become a monster? / Pi Li -- 14. Scholarship -- Our literal speed / Our Literal Speed -- Globalization, art history, and the specter of difference / Chika Okeke-Agulu -- The academic condition of contemporary art / Carrie Lambert-Beatty. |
