Theory in contemporary art since 1985

The intellectual field: a world apart / Pierre Bourdieu

When form has become attitude - and beyond / Thierry de Duve

One place after another: notes on site specificity / Miwon Kwon

Biennials without borders? / Chin-Tao Wu

Periodising contemporary art / Alexander Alberro

Contemporary art and the politics of aesthetics / Jacques Rancière

A note on Gerhard Richter's October 18, 1977 / Benjamin H.D. Buchloh

Notes on surface: toward a genealogy of flatness / David Joselit

Informe without conclusion / Rosalind Krauss

Video projection: the space between screens / Liz Kotz

How to provide an artistic service: an introduction / Andrea Fraser

Conversation pieces: the role of dialogue in socially-engaged art / Grant Kester

Antagonism and relational aesthetics / Claire Bishop

The war on culture / Carole S. Vance

AIDS: cultural analysis/cultural activism / Douglas Crimp

Architecture of the evicted / Rosalyn Deutsche

Gender is burning: questions of appropriation and subversion / Judith Butler

Looking for trouble / Kobena Mercer

The mythology of difference: vulgar identity politics at the Whitney Biennial / Charles A. Wright Jr.

Haunted TV / Avital Ronell

The architecture of porn: museum, urban detritus, and cinematic stag-rooms / Beatriz Preciado

Cultural workers as organic intellectuals / Chantal Mouffe

The Marco Polo syndrome: some problems around art and Eurocentrism / Gerardo Mosquera

In the "heart of darkness" / Olu Oguibe

The syncretic turn: cross-cultural practices in the age of multiculturalism / Jean Fisher

Authenticity, reflexivity, and spectacle: or, the rise of new Asia is not the end of the world / Lee Weng Choy

All-owning spectatorship / Trinh T. Minh-Ha

Ruins, fragmentation, and the Chinese modern/postmodern / Wu Hung

Re-politicizing art, theory, representation and new media technology / Marina Gržinić

Miming the master: boy-things, bad girls, and femmes vitales / Mary Kelly

Zones of indistinction: Giorgio Agamben's 'Bare life' and the politics of aesthetics / Anthony Downey

The database / Lev Manovich

For the love of abstraction / Blake Stimson

The politics of sustainability: art and ecology / T.J. Demos

Appendix: Letters and responses. Contingent factors: a response to Claire Bishop's "Antagonism and relational aesthetics" / Liam Gillick.

Pt. I. Contemporary art practices and models

1. intellectual field : a world apart / Pierre Bourdieu

2. When form has become attitude - and beyond / Thierry de Duve

3. One place after another : notes on site specificity / Miwon Kwon

4. curator's moment / Michael Brenson

5. How to provide an artistic service : an introduction / Andrea Fraser

6. Conversation pieces : the role of dialogue in socially-engaged art / Grant Kester

7. "yBa" as critique : the socio-political inferences of the mediated identity of recent British art / James Gaywood

8. Video projection : the space between screens / Liz Kotz

Pt. II. Culture/identities/political fields

9. war on culture / Carole S. Vance

10. Feminist fundamentalism : women against images / Carole S. Vance

11. AIDS : cultural analysis/cultural activism / Douglas Crimp

12. Architecture of the evicted / Rosalyn Deutsche

13. Gender is burning : questions of appropriation and subversion / Judith Butler

14. Cornered : a video installation project / Adrian Piper

15. mythology of difference : vulgar identity politics at the Whitney Biennial / Charles A. Wright, Jr.

16. Haunted TV / Avital Ronell

Pt. III. Postcolonial critiques

17. Marco Polo syndrome : some problems around art and Eurocentrism / Gerardo Mosquera

18. In the "heart of darkness" / Olu Oguibe

19. syncretic turn : cross-cultural practices in the age of multiculturalism / Jean Fisher

20. Authenticity, reflexivity, and spectacle: or, the rise of new Asia is not the end of the world / Lee Weng Choy

21. All-owning spectatorship / Trinh T. Minh-Ha

Pt. IV. Rethinking aesthetics

22. note on Gerhard Richter's October 18, 1977 / Benjamin H. D. Buchloh

23. Notes on surface : toward a genealogy of flatness / David Joselit

24. Ruins, fragmentation, and the Chinese modern/postmodern / Wu Hung

25. Function and field : demarcating conceptual practices / Nana Last

26. 1989 / Juli Carson

Pt. V. Theories after postmodernism

27. Postmodernism and periphery / Nelly Richard

28. Looking for trouble / Kobena Mercer

29. Repossessing popular culture / Laura Kipnis

30. lightness of theory / John Rajchman

31. Informe without conclusion / Rosalind Krauss

32. database / Lev Manovich.