Preface
Frank Ruda, Jan Völker
For and Against the Contemporary. An Examination
Alexander García Düttmann
“No, Nobody Could Ever Call Me His Contemporary”
Judith Balso
What is Contemporaneity in Theater?. Atomism versus Atavism
Oliver Feltham
We Are All Hot Girls in a Mental Asylum. The “Hollywood Left” and Contemporary Democracy
Frank Ruda
Fire Walk with Me. Canetti's “Auto-da-Fé”
Mark Potocnik
The Urinal and the Syncope
Barbara Formis
The Exhaustion of the Critical Form as Aesthetic Value
Vladimir Safatle
Benjamin and Adorno on Art as Critical Practice
Georg W. Bertram
To end the End. Philosophy and the Poem in Badiou
Jan Völker
Art and Mathematics
Alain Badiou
Contributors
