The contemporaneity question / Terry Smith -- Contemporaneity between modernity and postmodernity / Antonio Negri -- A cultural conjuncture in India : art into documentary / Geeta Kapur -- Some rotten shoots from the seeds of time / Rosalind Krauss -- On the contingency of modernity and the persistence of canons / Monica Amor -- Politics of flexible subjectivity : the event work of Lygia Clark / Suely Rolnik -- Double modernity, para-modernity / Jonathan Hay -- Particular time, specific space, my truth : total modernity in Chinese contemporary art / Gao Minglu -- The perils of unilateral power : neomodernist metaphors and the new global order / Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie -- The postcolonial constellation : contemporary art in a state of permanent transition / Okwui Enwezor -- From emigration to e-migration : contemporaneity and the former second world / Nancy Condee -- Aftermath: value and violence in contemporary South African art / Colin Richards -- Contemporary : conditions, spheres, and narratives of contemporary Chinese art / Wu Hung -- Emancipation or attachments? The different futures of politics / Bruno Latour -- The return of the sixties in contempoary art and criticism / James Meyer -- Introduction to info-aesthetics / Lev Manovich -- The giftshop at the end of history / McKenzie Wark -- Spatial aesthetics : rethinking the contemporary / Nikos Papasterigiadis.