A collective of texts stemming from issues of the online e-flux journal which explore the seemingly simple but rarely asked question as to how to define contemporary art today. Issues such as what are the characteristics of the ‘contemporary’, contempraneity and artistic production, and contemporary art’s relation to the tradition of art history and critical practices are explored. See in particular FW researcher Boris Groys’s text ‘Comrades of Time.’ Raqs Media Collective ‘Now and Elsewhere’ and Martha Rosler ‘Take the Money and Run? Can Political and Socio-Critical Art “Survive”?’