Art and Contemporaneity

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