Terry Smith is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh, and a visiting professor in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Sydney. He is the author of several books including The Architecture of Aftermath and Making the Modern: Industry, Art, and Design in America.Okwui Enwezor is Dean of Academic Affairs and Senior Vice President at the San Francisco Art Institute. He has curated numerous art exhibitions, including the 2nd Seville Biennial of Contemporary Art, Documenta 11 (Kassel, 1998–2002), and Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography at the International Center of Photography in New York, where he serves as Adjunct Curator.Nancy Condee is Director of the Graduate Program for Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of The Imperial Trace: Recent Russian Cinema (forthcoming) and editor of Soviet Hieroglyphics: Visual Culture in Late-Twentieth-Century Russia.

“Anyone wishing to assess the state of contemporary art and its relation to institutions, politics, social movements, and indeed, the entire project of imagining and naming the world at the present moment will find this brilliant book essential and disturbing reading. It offers no grand synthesis but provides a shattered mosaic of the crucial elements that will have to be assembled by any future historian looking back on the early twenty-first century.”-W. J. T. Mitchell, author of What Do Pictures Want? The Lives and Loves of Images “This is a provocative and indeed challenging assessment of the relation between ‘art’ and ‘culture’ (in scare quotes because both concepts are questioned) in the post-post-modernist moment. The essays successfully reposition discussion in a genuinely worldwide perspective, redefine modernism on a global scale, and push avant-garde thinking in new directions.”-Hayden White, University Professor Emeritus, University of California, and Professor of Comparative Literature, Stanford University “This remarkable orchestration of voices, visualities, and political visions lays bare the antinomies and contradictions that haunt the sovereign claims of globalization. Each consummate essay is an artful reflection on the complex resistances and revisions that emanate from cultural practices that transform the aesthetic and ethical realities of embedded and embattled localities. I warmly recommend Antinomies of Art and Culture.”-Homi K. Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University

• List of Illustrations ixPreface xiiiAcknowledgments sviiIntroduction: The Contemporaneity Question / Terry Smith 1Part I: The Politics of Temporality 1. Contemporaneity between Modernity and Postmodernity / Antonio Negri 232. A Cultural Conjuncture in India: Art into Documentary / Geeta Kapur 303. Some Rotten Shoots from the Seeds of Time / Rosalind Krauss 604. The Topology of Contemporary Art / Boris Groys 71Part 2: Multiple Modernities 5. On the Contingency of Modernity and the Persistence of Canons / Monica Amor 836. Politics of Flexible Subjectivity: The Event Work of Lygia Clark / Suely Rolnik 977. Double Modernity, Para-Modernity / Jonathan Hay 1138. "Particular Time, Specific Space, My Truth": Total Modernity in Chinese Contemporary Art / Gao Minglu 1339. The Perils of Unilateral Power: Neomodernist Metaphors and the New Global Order / Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie 16510. Analogue: 1998-2007 / Zoe Leonard, Introduced by Helen Molesworth 187Part 3: Afterworlds 11. The Postcolonial Constellation: Contemporary Art in a State of Permanent Transition / Okwui Enwezor 20712. From Emigration to E-migration: Contemporaneity and the Former Second World / Nancy Condee 23513. Aftermath: Value and Violence in Contemporary South African Art / Colin Richards 25014. A Case of Being "Contemporary": Conditions, Spheres, and Narratives of Contemporary Chinese Art / Wu Hung 290Part 4: Cotemporalities 15. Emancipation or Attachments? The Different Futures of Politics / Bruno Latour 30916. The Return of the Sixties in Contemporary Art and Criticism / James Meyer 32417. Introduction to Info-Aesthetics / Lev Manovich 33318. The Giftshop at the End of History / McKenzie Wark 34519. Spatial Aesthetics: Rethinking the Contemporary / Nikos Papastergiadis 363References 383Contributors 413Index 417

Terry Smith is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh, and a visiting professor in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Sydney. He is the author of several books including The Architecture of Aftermath and Making the Modern: Industry, Art, and Design in America.Okwui Enwezor is Dean of Academic Affairs and Senior Vice President at the San Francisco Art Institute. He has curated numerous art exhibitions, including the 2nd Seville Biennial of Contemporary Art, Documenta 11 (Kassel, 1998–2002), and Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography at the International Center of Photography in New York, where he serves as Adjunct Curator.Nancy Condee is Director of the Graduate Program for Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of The Imperial Trace: Recent Russian Cinema (forthcoming) and editor of Soviet Hieroglyphics: Visual Culture in Late-Twentieth-Century Russia.

“Anyone wishing to assess the state of contemporary art and its relation to institutions, politics, social movements, and indeed, the entire project of imagining and naming the world at the present moment will find this brilliant book essential and disturbing reading. It offers no grand synthesis but provides a shattered mosaic of the crucial elements that will have to be assembled by any future historian looking back on the early twenty-first century.”-W. J. T. Mitchell, author of What Do Pictures Want? The Lives and Loves of Images “This is a provocative and indeed challenging assessment of the relation between ‘art’ and ‘culture’ (in scare quotes because both concepts are questioned) in the post-post-modernist moment. The essays successfully reposition discussion in a genuinely worldwide perspective, redefine modernism on a global scale, and push avant-garde thinking in new directions.”-Hayden White, University Professor Emeritus, University of California, and Professor of Comparative Literature, Stanford University “This remarkable orchestration of voices, visualities, and political visions lays bare the antinomies and contradictions that haunt the sovereign claims of globalization. Each consummate essay is an artful reflection on the complex resistances and revisions that emanate from cultural practices that transform the aesthetic and ethical realities of embedded and embattled localities. I warmly recommend Antinomies of Art and Culture.”-Homi K. Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University

• List of Illustrations ixPreface xiiiAcknowledgments sviiIntroduction: The Contemporaneity Question / Terry Smith 1Part I: The Politics of Temporality 1. Contemporaneity between Modernity and Postmodernity / Antonio Negri 232. A Cultural Conjuncture in India: Art into Documentary / Geeta Kapur 303. Some Rotten Shoots from the Seeds of Time / Rosalind Krauss 604. The Topology of Contemporary Art / Boris Groys 71Part 2: Multiple Modernities 5. On the Contingency of Modernity and the Persistence of Canons / Monica Amor 836. Politics of Flexible Subjectivity: The Event Work of Lygia Clark / Suely Rolnik 977. Double Modernity, Para-Modernity / Jonathan Hay 1138. "Particular Time, Specific Space, My Truth": Total Modernity in Chinese Contemporary Art / Gao Minglu 1339. The Perils of Unilateral Power: Neomodernist Metaphors and the New Global Order / Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie 16510. Analogue: 1998-2007 / Zoe Leonard, Introduced by Helen Molesworth 187Part 3: Afterworlds 11. The Postcolonial Constellation: Contemporary Art in a State of Permanent Transition / Okwui Enwezor 20712. From Emigration to E-migration: Contemporaneity and the Former Second World / Nancy Condee 23513. Aftermath: Value and Violence in Contemporary South African Art / Colin Richards 25014. A Case of Being "Contemporary": Conditions, Spheres, and Narratives of Contemporary Chinese Art / Wu Hung 290Part 4: Cotemporalities 15. Emancipation or Attachments? The Different Futures of Politics / Bruno Latour 30916. The Return of the Sixties in Contemporary Art and Criticism / James Meyer 32417. Introduction to Info-Aesthetics / Lev Manovich 33318. The Giftshop at the End of History / McKenzie Wark 34519. Spatial Aesthetics: Rethinking the Contemporary / Nikos Papastergiadis 363References 383Contributors 413Index 417