Preface
Alexander García Düttman
For and Against the Contemporary
An Examination
Judith Balso
"No, nobody could ever call me his contemporary."
Oliver Feltham
What is Contemporaneity in Theater? Atomism versus Atavism
Frank Ruda
We Are All Hot Girls in a Mental Asylum
The "Hollywood Left" and Contemporary Democracy
Mark Potocnik
Fire walk with me
Canetti's Auto-da-Fé
Barbara Formis
The Urinal and The Syncope
Vladimir Safatle
The Exhaustion of the Critical Form as Aesthetic Value
Georg W. Bertram
Benjamin and Adorno on Art as Critical Practice
Jan Voelker
To end the End
Philosophy and the Poem in Balidou
Alain Badiou
Art and Mathematics
Contributors