Aesthetic Temporalities Today: Present, Presentness, Re-Presentation

Content
Preface
Aesthetic Temporalities Today: Present, Presentness, Re-Presentation
1. The Global Spaces of the Present
The Global Promise of Contemporary Art
Present, Presence, Presentation
Visible/Unvisible Present
Exhibiting Earth History. The Politics of Visualization in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
Painting, Photography, Polychronicity: Lang Jingshan’s Portrait of Zhang Shanzi
Temporality, Oríkì and Nigeria’s Contemporary Art
The Presentness of a Minority. Notes on the Indian Twelver Shia
2. The Present in Art. Perspectives from Art History
Time and Form: The “Unthought Known”
Rhythmical Presentness. On the ‘Rhythmology’ of Perception. Maldiney—Cézanne—Rilke
Temporal Concepts of the Present and their Aesthetic Negotiation in Black Arts Movement and ‘Black Atlantic’
The Aesthetics of Coexistence as Ongoing
“There is first of all the doubtful contemporaneity of the present to itself.” The Spectral Present of Control and the Strategies of Performance
3. The Presentation of Presentness and Presence
Presentations as Aesthetic Temporalities
Extreme Situations of the Political. Hannah Arendt’s Article “The Concentration Camps” (1948)
“Fortrollende Gegenwart:” Psychopathology and Epical Present Tense in Georg Heym’s Der Irre and Der Dieb
Now-time Explosion. The Experience of Time in Social Revolution
Histories of the Present—a Media Philosophical Approach
Biographical Notes