Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. missing link / Stephen Ross -- Pt. I. Theory's modernism: concrete connections -- 1. Rip the veil of the old vision across, and walk through the rent: thinking through affect in D. H. Lawrence and Deleuze and Guattari / Anneleen Masschelein -- Deleuze and his sources: Response to Anneleen Masschelein / Ian Buchanan -- 2. Modernism, postmodernism, and the two sublimes of surrealism / Roger Rothaman -- two sublimes, fourth time around Response to Roger Rothman / Allan Stoekl -- 3. "What true project has been lost?" Modern art and Henri Lefebvre's Critique of Everyday Life / Thomas S. Davis -- Disdained everyday fields Response to Thomas S. Davis / Ben Highmore -- 4. Time and its countermeasures: modern messianisms in Woolf, Benjamin, and Agamben / Hilary Thompson -- Time's exception: Response to Hilary Thompson / Pamela Caughie -- Pt. II. Modernism's theory: abstract affiliations -- 5. persistence of the old regime: late modernist form in the postmodern period / Neil Levi -- In the time of theory, the timeliness of modernism Response to Neil Levi / Glenn Willmott -- 6. Invisible times: modernism as ruptural unity / C. D. Blanton -- More than a hint of desperation -- historicizing modernism Response to C. D. Blanton / Morag Shiach -- 7. "This new evolution of art": Adorno's modernism as a re-orientation of aesthetics / Oleg Gelikman -- What's new? On Adorno and the modernist aesthetics of novelty: Response to Oleg Gelikman / Martin Jay -- 8. Fables of progression: modernism, modernity, narrative / Andrew John Miller -- Modernism and the moment of defeat: Response to Andrew John Miller / Scott McCracken -- Pt. III. Forum -- 9. Aesthetics / Charles F. Etieri -- 10. Ethics / Melba Cuddy-Keane -- 11. Green / Bonnie Kime Scott -- 12. Avant-garde / Jane Goldman -- 13. Theory / Susan Stanford Friedman -- Afterword / Fredric Jameson.

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