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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book. TO JACQUES DERRIDA, 1930–2004, IN MEMORIAM CONTENTS List of Illustrations ix Preface xiii Acknowledgments xvii TERRY SMITH: Introduction: The Contemporaneity Question 1 PART 1: THE POLITICS OF TEMPORALITY 1. ANTONIO NEGRI: Contemporaneity between Modernity and Postmodernity 23 2. GEETA KAPUR: A Cultural Conjuncture in India: Art into Documentary 30 3. ROSALIND KRAUSS: Some Rotten Shoots from the Seeds of Time 60 4. BORIS GROYS: The Topology of Contemporary Art 71 PART 2: MULTIPLE MODERNITIES 5. MONICA AMOR: On the Contingency of Modernity and the Persistence of Canons 83 6. SUELY ROLNIK: Politics of Flexible Subjectivity: The Event Work of Lygia Clark 97 viii CONTENTS 7. JONATHAN HAY: Double Modernity, Para-Modernity 113 8. GAO MINGLU: ‘‘Particular Time, Specific Space, My Truth’’: Total Modernity in Chinese Contemporary Art 133 9. SYLVESTER OKWUNODU OGBECHIE: The Perils of Unilateral Power: Neomodernist Metaphors and the New Global Order 165 10. ZOE LEONARD: Analogue, 1998–2007 187 INTRODUCED BY HELEN MOLESWORTH PART 3: AFTERWORLDS 11. OKWUI ENWEZOR: The Postcolonial Constellation: Contemporary Art in a State of Permanent Transition 207 12. NANCY CONDEE: From Emigration to E-migration: Contemporaneity and the Former Second World