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Contents

Introduction

1 The Fiction of the contemporary

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

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 and series

Process and project

3 Modernisms and mediations

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

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

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

6 Art space

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

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

Notes

Bibliography

Image credits

Index