Contents // Introduction 1 // 1 The fiction of the contemporary 15 // Together in time? - three periodizations of contemporary art idea, problem, fiction, task - the global transnational, or, the // contemporary today - Joseph Bitar - fictionalization of artistic // authority/collectivization of artistic fictions: a First Transnational // 2 Art beyond aesthetics 37 // Art versus aesthetics (Jena Romanticism contra Kant) - periodization as historical ontology: postconceptual art-a speculative // proposition - an image of romanticism (Benjamin, Schlegel, // Lewitt) - fragment and sentence - information arid series process and project // 3 Modernisms and mediations 71 // The double heritage of the modern in art - artistic modernisms: // aesthetic, specific, generic - mediations after mediums: nominalism and genre, isms and series - everything, everywhere? // Polke and Richter // 4 Transcategoriality: postconceptual art 99 // Smithson and medium (or, against �sculpture’) - the �interminable avalanche of categories’ - ontology of materializations: // non-site - conceptual abstraction and �pure perception’ // 5 Photographic ontology infinite exchange 117 // Distributive unity - the photograph: metonymic model of an // imagined unity - digitalization, art and the real (or, anxiety // about abstraction) - the visible, the invisible and the multiplication of visualizations // V // 6 Art space 133 // Non-places and the textualization of art - architecturalization:
// three questions - construction and expression - art as displaced // urbanism: capitalist constructivism of the exhibition-form transnationalization: art industry - project space // 7 Art time 175 // Attention and distraction: boredom as possibility - distracted // reception (duration and rhythm) - memory or history? - testimonies: three works - expectation as a historical category // (critique of Koselleck) - expecting the unexpected: puncturing // the horizon // Acknowledgements 213 // Notes 215 // Bibliography 255 // Image credits 271 // Index 273