THE CONTEMPORARY CONDITION

What do we mean when we say that something is contemporary? And what should the designator contemporary art refer to? An immediate response would be that contemporary art is an art of the present, that it somehow addresses and expresses the present. But what is this present? What constitutes the present present or the contemporary contemporary? This first book in the Contemporary Condition s eries introduces some of the key issues concerning contemporaneity as a defining condition of our historical present. It thus acts a s an extend...[Read more]