Anneka Esch-van Kan, Stephan Packard, Philipp Schulte: Politics and Aesthetics: Introduction
Stephan Packard: Thinking – Introduction
Maria Muhle: From the Plebs to the Demos: Two Notions of Political Subjectification
Chantal Mouffe: Democratic Politics in the Age of Post-Fordism
Josef Früchtl: As If We Could Trust: Fiction and Aesthetics of the Political
Dieter Mersch: The Political and the Violent: On Resistances
Friedrich Balke: All in Good Time? Fiction and the Possibility of Historic Events
Jacques Rancière: Doing or Not Doing: Politics, Aesthetics, Performance
Anneka Esch-van Kan: Resisting – Introduction
Judith Butler: Ethical Ambivalence
Frank Ruda: Thinking Politics Concretely: Negation, Affirmation, and the Dialectics of Dialectics and Non-Dialectics
Simon Critchley: Is Utopianism Dead?
Jon McKenzie: Abu Ghraib and the Society of the Spectacle of the Scaffold
Anneka Esch-van Kan: "Torture Chicks" – Resistance and the Political in Coco Fusco's "A Room of One's Own" and "A Field Guide for Female Interrogators"
Andreas Hetzel: "Prendre la parole": Voices of Resistance in Contemporary Theory
Anneka Esch-van Kan, Philipp Schulte: Reading – Introduction
Armen Avanessian: Reading Political Theories (not) Reading: Towards a Contemporary Realism of Reference
Wim Peeters: Contesting "the Democratic Chattering of the Letter": Politics of Commentary in 20th Century Literature
Juliane Rebentisch: Realism Today: Art, Politics, and the Critique of Representation
Nikolaus Müller-Schöll: "Plus d'un rôle": Playing Together in Contemporary Dance, Theatre, and Performance
Philipp Schulte: Alternative Genealogies – Critique and Style in Contemporary Performance Art:. Xavier Le Roy and Mamoru Iriguchi
Stephen Packard: Why are Story Arcs Dark and Gritty? On the Metaphysics of Seriality in "Dexter" and Kammerer
Gabriel Rockhill: Critical Reflections on the Ontological Illusion: Rethinking the Relation between Art and Politics