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        Sternberg Press / The Contemporary Condition

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        I Can’t Sleep

        I Can't Sleep

        I Can't Sleep

        by Lionel Ruffel

        ISBN: 9783956796036

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: February 1, 2022

        An attempt to feel and investigate the quality of time, with references to Jonathan Crary, Paul B. Preciado, Charles Baudelaire, and Walter Benjamin.
        Whose Time Is It?

        Whose Time Is It?

        Whose Time Is It?

        Asocial Robots, Syncholonialism, and Artificial Chronological Intelligence

        by Stamatia Portanova

        ISBN: 9783956796081

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: February 1, 2022

        Following the “emerging life adventures and experiences” of Sophia, a robot animated by blockchain and AI, to present a study in temporal automation.
        Co-existence of Times

        Co-existence of Times

        Co-existence of Times

        A Conversation with John Akomfrah

        by Johanne Løgstrup

        ISBN: 9783956795718

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: August 3, 2021

        A conversation with filmmaker and artist John Akomfrah, exploring how his work with montage can be understood to articulate contemporaneity in sensuous ways.
        Exhibition-ism

        Exhibition-ism

        Exhibition-ism

        Temporal Togetherness

        by Mieke Bal

        ISBN: 9783956795725

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: August 3, 2021

        Consideration of recent shows of Mieke Bal's video work, framed by observations on contemporary sculpture's response to classics of the form.
        The Last Resident

        The Last Resident

        The Last Resident

        Edited by Verina Gfader

        ISBN: 9783956794681

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: September 17, 2019

        A bunch of residents cruising the seas of nine temporary realities.
        Anachrony, Contemporaneity, and Historical Imagination

        Anachrony, Contemporaneity, and Historical Imagination

        Anachrony, Contemporaneity, and Historical Imagination

        by Jacob Lund

        ISBN: 9783956794872

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: September 17, 2019

        An argument for “the contemporary contemporary” as the point of departure for any anachronic relationship with time today.
        “100 Years of Now” and the Temporality of Curatorial Research

        “100 Years of Now” and the Temporality of Curatorial Research

        “100 Years of Now” and the Temporality of Curatorial Research

        by Olga von Schubert

        ISBN: 9783956793998

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: March 26, 2019

        Curatorial projects are increasingly understood as research projects with extended time frames and complex interactions across diverse sectors. This book presents “100 Years of Now,” a research...
        Hegel after Occupy

        Hegel after Occupy

        Hegel after Occupy

        by Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen

        ISBN: 9783956793905

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: October 2, 2018

        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...
        On Writing a Literary History of the Contemporary, or What is, or was, “the Contemporary,” and should we keep calling it that?

        On Writing a Literary History of the Contemporary, or What is, or was, “the Contemporary,” and should we keep calling it that?

        On Writing a Literary History of the Contemporary, or What is, or was, “the Contemporary,” and should we keep calling it that?

        by Margaret-Anne Hutton

        ISBN: 9783956793899

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: October 2, 2018

        “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...
        There Is No Now

        There Is No Now

        There Is No Now

        An Archaeology of Contemporaneity

        by Knut Ebeling

        ISBN: 9783956793516

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: September 8, 2017

        Drawing together discourses on contemporaneity and new materialisms, this book examines a material conception of temporality that makes it possible to develop a critique of the philosophical discourse...
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