Introduction: The Contemporaneity Question - Terry SMITH

Part 1: The Politics of Temporality

1. Contemporaneity between Modernity and Postmodernity - Antonio NEGRI

2. A Cultural Conjuncture in India: Art into Documentary - Geeta KAPUR

3. Some Rotten Shoots from the Seeds of Time - Rosalind KRAUSS

4. The Topology of Contemporary Art - Boris GROYS

Part 2: Multiple Modernities

5. On the Contingency of Modernity and the Persistence of Canons - Monica AMOR

6. Politics of Flexible Subjectivity: The Event Work of Lygia Clark - Suely ROLNIK

7. Double Modernity, Para-Modernity - Jonathan HAY

8. 'Particular Time, Specific Space, My Truth': Total Modernity in Chinese Contemporary Art - GAO Minglu, 高名潞

9. The Perils of Unilateral Power: Neomodernist Metaphors and the New Global Order - Sylvester Okwunodu OGBECHIE

10. Zoe Leonard, Analogue, 1998–2007 - Helen MOLESWORTH

Part 3: Afterworlds

11. The Postcolonial Constellation: Contemporary Art in a State of Permanent Transition - Okwui ENWEZOR

12. From Emigration to E-migration: Contemporaneity and the Former Second World - Nancy CONDEE

13. Aftermath: Value and Violence in Contemporary South African Art - Colin RICHARDS

14. A Case of Being 'Contemporary': Conditions, Spheres, and Narratives of Contemporary Chinese Art - WU Hung, 巫鴻

Part 4: Cotemporalities

15. Emancipation or Attachments? The Different Futures of Politics - Bruno LATOUR

16. The Return of the Sixties in Contemporary Art and Criticism - James MEYER

17. Introduction to Info-Aesthetics - Lev MANOVICH

18, The Giftshop at the End of History - McKenzie WARK

19. Spatial Aesthetics: Rethinking the Contemporary - Nikos PAPASTERGIADIS