Introduction - James ELKINS

The Seminars

Introductory Seminar

The Anti-Aesthetic in the 1980s: Craig Owens's 'The Allegorical Impulse'

The Anti-Aesthetic in the 1990s: The Body

Theory and Criticism

Theoretical Positions: Critical Theory

Theoretical Positions: Racière, Deleuze, Relational Aesthetics

Theoretical Positions: Affect Theory in Art History

Theoretical Positions: Affect Theory at Large

Things Missing from This Book

Assessments

Preface - Harper MONTGOMERY

The October Revolution - Grant H. KESTER

'This' - Alexander DUMBADZE

The Chinese Reception - GENG Youzhuang, 耿幼壯

A Gaping Hole - Cary LEVINE

Not Aesthetics or Anti-Aesthetics but Poetics - Boris GROYS

Ellipses and Détente - Gregory SHOLETTE

What If We Really Have Never Been Modere? - Eva SCHURMANN

Beyond Aesthetic and Anti-Aesthetic: Three Miniatures - Maria Filomena MOLDER

Get Over It! - Gary PETERS

Beyond 'Beyondness' - Andrew MCNAMARA

Re: Re: Post - Gordon HUGHES

The Elusive 'Beyond' of Aesthetic and Anti-Aesthetic - Toni ROSS

On Politics, Art, and Mobbing Rancière - Justin MCKEOWN

As If - Timotheus VERMEULEN

How Do You Pronounce the Politics of Aesthetics? - Noah SIMBLIST

Remarkable Oversights, or Could We Actually Make Politics Easier to Talk about? - Rebecca ZORACH

Adorno and Affect - Carrie NOLAND

Let's Not and Say We Did - Robert STORR

Why is Adorno So Repulsive? - William MAZZARELLA

Theory Cataracts - Luis CAMNITZER

Moving Beyond: Aesthetics and Politics - Jon SIMONS

The Aesthetic, the Anti-Aesthetic, and then What?: Why Answering This Question Involves Thinking about Art as Labor - Angela DIMITRAKAKI

Afterword

The Bathwater and the Baby - Gretchen BAKKE