Introduction - Simon LEUNG, 梁碩恩, Zoya KOCUR

Part I: Contemporary Art Practices and Models

1 The Intellectual Field: A World Apart (1990) - Pierre BOURDIEU

2 When Form Has Become Attitude - And Beyond (1994) - Thierry DE DUVE

3 One Place After Another: Notes on Site Specificity (1997) - Miwon KWON

4 The Curator's Moment (1998) - Michael BRENSON

5 How to Provide an Artistic Service: An Introduction (1994) - Andrea FRASER

6 Conversation Pieces: The Role of Dialogue in Socially-Engaged Art (2004) - Grant H. KESTER

7 "yBa" as Critique: The Socio-Political Inferences of the Mediated Identity of Recent British Art (1997) - James GAYWOOD

8 Video Projection: The Space Between Screens (2004) - Liz KOTZ

Part II: Culture/Identities/Political Fields

9 The War on Culture (1990) - Carole S. VANCE

10 Feminist Fundamentalism: Women Against Images (1993) - Carole S. VANCE

11 AIDS: Cultural Analysis/Cultural Activism (1987) - Douglas CRIMP

12 Architecture of the Evicted (1990) - Rosalyn DEUTSCHE

13 Gender is Burning: Questions of Appropriation and Subversion (1993) - Judith BUTLER

14 Cornered: A Video Installation Project (1992) - Adrian PIPER

15 The Mythology of Difference: Vulgar Identity Politics at the Whitney Biennial (1993) - Charles A. WRIGHT Jr.

16 Haunted TV (1992) - Avital RONELL

Part III: Postcolonial Critiques

17 The Marco Polo Syndrome: Some Problems around Art and Eurocentrism (1992) - Gerardo MOSQUERA

18 In the "Heart of Darkness" (1993) - Olu OGUIBE

19 The Syncretic Turn: Cross-Cultural Practices in the Age of Multiculturalism (1996) - Jean FISHER

20 Authenticity, Reflexivity, and Spectacle: or, the Rise of New Asia is not the End of the World (2004) - LEE Weng Choy, 李永財

21 All-Owning Spectatorship (1991) - TRINH T. Minh Ha

Part IV: Rethinking Aesthetics

22 A Note on Gerhard Richter's October 18, 1977 (1989) - Benjamin H.D. BUCHLOH

23 Notes on Surface: Towards a Genealogy of Flatness (2000) - David JOSELIT

24 Ruins, Fragmentation, and the Chinese Modern/Postmodern (1998) - WU Hung, 巫鴻

25 Function and Field: Demarcating Conceptual Practices (2004) - Nana LAST

26 1989 - Juli CARSON

Part V: Theories after Postmodernism

27 Postmodernism and Periphery (1987) - Nelly RICHARD

28 Looking for Trouble (1991) - Kobena MERCER

29 Repossessing Popular Culture (1993) - Laura KIPNIS

30 The Lightness of Theory (1993) - John RAJCHMAN

31 Informe without Conclusion (1996) - Rosalind KRAUSS

32 The Database (2001) - Lev MANOVICH