Bernd Neumann –
Welcome
Hortensia Völckers –
Preface
Klaus Biesenbach –
City of Gray, Somewhere Between White and Black
Gabriele Horn –
Foreword
Georg Simmel –
The Berlin Trade Exhibition
Oksana Bolgakowa –
Places and stories:
Eisenstein's
Glass House and his spherical book
Bettina Vismann & Jürgen Mayer H. –
Perspiration, or the new National Gallery between cold fronts
Pelin Tan –
Can « spaces » be fully capitalized ? Art and gentrification of « non-places »
Beatriz Colomina –
The endless museum:
Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe
Mes nuits
Vos jours
Francis Ponge –
The shrimp
Dieter Roelstraete –
Art as object attachment : thoughts on thingness
Rubén Santantonin –
Why I call these objects «things»
Boris Arwatow –
Everyday life and the culture of the thing
Robert Walser –
For Zilch
Rachel Haidu –
Use
Konstantin Waginow –
The Harpagoniada (excerpt)
Brian Dillon –
Notes on hypochondria
Henry Green –
Nothing (excerpt)
Georges Didi-Huberman –
Expose the nameless
Francis Ponge –
My creative method (excerpt)
Robert Walser –
Letter to a commissioner of novellas
Adam Szymczyk et Elena Filipovic –
When things cast no shadow