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CONTRIBUTORS
INTRODUCTION
A User’s Guide to Contemporary Art: 1989 to the Present
1 THE CONTEMPORARY AND GLOBALIZATION
Worlds Apart: Contemporary Art, Globalization, and the Rise of Biennials
“Our” Contemporaneity?
The Historicity of the Contemporary is Now!
2 ART AFTER MODERNISM AND POSTMODERNISM
Elite Art in an Age of Populism
“Of Adversity we Live!”
Making it Work: Artists and Contemporary Art in China
3 FORMALISM
Form Struggles
Formalism Redefined
The World in Plain View: Form in the Service of the Global
4 MEDIUM SPECIFICITY
The (Re)Animation of Medium Specificity in Contemporary Art
Medium Aspecificity/Autopoietic Form
Specificity
5 ART AND TECHNOLOGY
Test Sites: Fabrication
Inhabiting the Technosphere: Art and Technology Beyond Technical Invention
Conceptual Art 2.0
6 BIENNIALS
In Defense of Biennials
Curating in Heterogeneous Worlds
Biennial Culture and the Aesthetics of Experience
7 PARTICIPATION
Participation
The Ripple Effect: “Participation” as an Expanded Field
Publicity and Complicity in Contemporary Art
8 ACTIVISM
Activism
Knit Dissent
Light from a Distant Star: A Meditation on Art, Agency, and Politics
9 AGENCY
Participation in Art: 10 Theses
Fusions of Powers: Four Models of Agency in the Field of Contemporary Art, Ranked Unapologetically in Order of Preference
Life Full of Holes: Contemporary Art and Bare Life
10 THE RISE OF FUNDAMENTALISM
Monotheism à la Mode
Freedom’s Just Another Word
On the Frontline: The Politics of Terrorism in Contemporary Pakistani Art
11 JUDGMENT
Judgment’s Troubled Objects
A Producer’s Journal, or Judgment A Go-Go
After Criticism
12 MARKETS
Globalization and Commercialization of the Art Market
Three Perspectives on the Market
Untitled
13 ART SCHOOLS AND THE ACADEMY
Lifelong Learning
Art without Institutions
“Will the Academy Become a Monster?”
14 SCHOLARSHIP
Our Literal Speed
Globalization, Art History, and the Specter of Difference
The Academic Condition of Contemporary Art
INDEX
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