Many of the essays included were previously published between 1997-2012.
Waiting for HUO / April Lamm -- Foreword / Paul Chan -- Der Hang zum Gesamtkunstwerk -- Curator -- Mission impossible -- Le 21ème siècle est Glissant -- After the moderns, the immaterials -- The museum revisited / (with Daniel Birnbaum) -- Life brought to art -- The future of art and patronage -- The just past : 2010 -- Cloaca maxima -- Delta X -- Cities on the move, move / (with Hou Hanru) -- Retrace your steps : remember tomorrow -- Battery, kraftwerk, and laboratory (Alexander Dorner revisited) -- Merzspace -- Unbuilt roads -- Utopia station (with Molly Nesbit and Rirkrit Tiravanija) -- Obituaries : David Weiss, Richard Hamilton -- Afterword / Etel Adnan -- ODE to HUO / Olafur Eliasson