Notes on Contributors. Acknowledgements. Text, Figure, and Plate Credits. How To Use This Book. Introduction. Part I: Contemporary Art Practices and Models:. 1. The Intellectual Field: a world apart: Pierre Bourdieu (deceased 2001, College de France). 2. When Form Has Become Attitude - And Beyond: Thierry de Duve (University of Lille 3, France and the Hogeschool Sint Lucas Beeldende Kunst, Gent). 3. One Place After Another: Notes on Site Specificity: Miwon Kwon (UCLA). 4. The Curator's Moment: Michael Brenson (independent scholar). 5. How to Provide an Artistic Service: An Introduction: Andrea Fraser (artist). 6. Conversation Pieces: The Role of Dialogue in Socially Engaged Art: Grant Kester (University of California, San Diego). 7. 'yBa' as Critique: The Socio-Political Inferences of the Mediated: James Gaywood (independent scholar). 8. Video Projection: The Space Between Screens: Liz Kotz (University of Minnesota). Part II: Culture/Identities/Political Fields:. 9. The War on Culture: Carole S. Vance (Columbia University). 10. Feminist Fundamentalism: Women against Images: Carole S. Vance (Columbia University). 11. AIDS: Cultural Analysis/Cultural Activism: Douglas Crimp (University of Rochester). 12. Architecture of the Evicted: Rosalyn Deutsche (Barnard College, Columbia University). 13. Gender is Burning: Questions of Appropriation and Subversion: Judith Butler (University of California, Berkeley). 14. Cornered: A Video Installation Project: Adrian Piper (Professor of Philosophy, Wellesley College). 15. The Mythology of Difference: Vulgar Identity Politics at the Whitney: Charles A. Wright, Jr. (independent scholar). 16. Haunted TV: Avital Ronell (New York University). Part III: Post-colonial Critiques:. 17. The Marco Polo Syndrome: Some Problems around Art and Eurocentrism: Gerardo Mosquera (New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York). 18. In the 'Heart of Darkness': Olu Oguibe (University of Connecticut). 19. The Syncretic Turn: Cross-Cultural Practices in the Age of Multiculturalism: Jean Fisher (Middlesex University). 20. Authenticity, Reflexivity & Spectacle: or, the rise of New Asia is not the End of the World: Lee Weng Choy (The Substation, an independent contemporary art center in Singapore). 21. All-Owning Spectatorship: Trinh T. Minh-Ha (University of California, Berkeley). Part IV: Rethinking Aesthetics:. 22. A Note on Gerhard Richter's October 18, 1977: Benjamin Buchloh (Barnard College, Columbia University). 23. Notes on Surface: toward a genealogy of flatness: David Joselit (Yale University). 24. Ruins, Fragmentation, and the Chinese Modern/Postmodern: Wu Hung (The University of Chicago). 25. Function and Field: Nana Last (Rice University). 26. 1989: Juli Carson (UCLA). Part V: Theories after Postmodernism:. 27. Postmodernism and Periphery: Nelly Richard (Universidad Arcis, Santiago de Chile). 28. Looking for Trouble: Kobena Mercer (Goldsmith's). 29. Repossessing Popular Culture: Laura Kipnis (Northwestern University). 30. The Lightness of Theory: John Rajchman (Columbia University). 31. Informe Without Conclusion: Rosalind Krauss (Columbia University). 32. The Database: Lev Manovich (University of California, San Diego). Index
