Introduction / Alexander Dumbadze and Suzanne Hudson
1. The contemporary and globalization
Worlds apart: contemporary art, globalization, and the rise of biennials / Tim Griffin
"Our" contemporaneity? / Terry Smith
The historicity of the contemporary is now! / Jean-Philippe Antoine
2. Art after modernism and postmodernism
Elite art in an age of populism / Julian Stallabrass
"Of adversity we live!" / Monica Amor
Making it work: artists and contemporary art in China / Pauline J. Yao
Form struggles / Jan Verwoert
Formalism redefinied / Anne Ellegood
The world in plain view: form in the service of the global / Joan Kee
The (re)animation of medium specificity in contemporary art / Sabeth Buchmann
Medium aspecificity/autopoietic form / Irene V. Small
Specificity / Richard Shiff
Test sites: fabrication / Michelle Kuo
Inhabiting the technosphere: art and technology beyond technical invention / Ina Blom
Conceptual art 2.0 / David Joselit
In defense of biennials / Massimiliano Gioni
Curating in heterogeneous worlds / Geeta Kapur
Biennial culture and the aesthetics of experience / Caroline A. Jones
Participation / Liam Gillick and Maria Lind
The ripple effect: "participation" as an expanded field / Johanna Burton
Publicity and complicity in contemporary art / Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy
Knit dissent / Julia Bryan-Wilson
Light from a distant star: a meditation on art, agency, and politics / Raqs Media Collective
Participation in art: 10 theses / Juliane Rebentisch
Fusions of powers: four models of agency in the field of contemporary art, ranked unapologetically in order of preference / Tirdad Zolghadr
Life full of holes: contemporary art and bare life / T.J. Demos
10. The rise of fundamentalism
Monotheism à la mode / Sven Lütticken
Freedom's just another word / Terri Weissman
On the frontline: the politics of terrorism in contemporary Pakistani art / Atteqa Ali
Judgment's troubled objects / João Ribas
A producer's journal, or judgment a go-go / Frank Smigiel
After criticism / Lane Relyea
Globalization and commercialization of the art market / Olav Velthuis
Three perspectives on the market / Mihai Pop, Sylvia Kouvali, and Andrea Rosen
Untitled / Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri
13. Art schools and the academy
Lifelong learning / Katy Siegel
Art without institutions / Anton Vidokle
Will the academy become a monster? / Pi Li
Our literal speed / Our Literal Speed
Globalization, art history, and the specter of difference / Chika Okeke-Agulu
The academic condition of contemporary art / Carrie Lambert-Beatty.
