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Contemporary Condition On Writing A Literary History Of The Contemporary or What is,

Or Was, “the Contemporary,” and should we keep calling it that?
Sternberg Press 2018 ISBN 9783956793899 Acqn 28905
Pb 12x19cm 48pp £7

“The contemporary” is an established term in a range of scholarly and disciplinary discourses, but
what does it mean? Interweaving sections drawn from an (apparently) hypothetical and
oxymoronic project—the writing of a literary history of “the contemporary”—with a critical analysis
of the term(s) “the contemporary” and “contemporary” in the work of a range of theorists,
Margaret-Anne Hutton sets out to expose the inconsistencies and ambiguities in its terminological
usage, and to unpick some of the knots which bind the substantive and adjective. How can “(the)
contemporary” function as a critical term, and how might we map its history?

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Contemporary Condition - Hegel After Occupy

Sternberg Press 2018 ISBN 9783956793905 Acqn 28906
Pb 12x19cm 64pp £7

Hegel after Occupy is a Western Marxist analysis of different attempts to understand the present
historical situation and the way theories of postmodernity, globalization, and contemporaneity
implicitly or explicitly conceptualize the relationship between the historical present and political
action. They all persuasively describe a breakdown of former historical categories but
paradoxically end up understanding this breakdown as the end of politics tout court. Analysis and
“position” thus merge, and the analytic diagnosis of a disavowal of the future (and the past) ends
up as a disavowal of politics.

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Contemporary Condition - Contemporary Research Intensive

Sternberg Press 2018 ISBN 9783956793912 Acqn 28909
Pb 12x19cm 72pp £7

Contemporary Research Intensive was an event organized in the context of the 57th Venice Art
Biennale to investigate the concept of “contemporaneity.” Gathering together
artists/curators/researchers through an open call, we asked how the temporal complexity that
follows from the coming together of different temporalities in the same present could be made
known in the context of contemporary art research, and particularly through practices that involve
exhibitionary forms. The book is both part and result of the intensive sharing of ideas to produce
something that captures the spirit of both discussions at that time and the publication process as
a temporal form.

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