Prologue - in the beginning - Third Text and the politics of art, Sean Cubitt. Part 1 History: introduction, Ziauddin Sardar; contemporary cultural practice - some polemical categories, Geeta Kapur; Latin American origins of alternative modernism, David Craven; reverse appropriation as nationalism in Early Modern African art, Olu Oguibe; displaying authenticity and progress, Johan Lagae; colonial/postcolonial intersections, Zeynap Celik; whose heritage? un-settling the heritage, re-imagining the post-nation, Stuart Hall. Part 2 Representation: introduction, Annie Coombes; discovering the European wild man, Roger Bartra; cowboys and - , Jimmie Durham; ethnicity and internationality - new British art and diaspora-based blackness, Kobena Mercer; art as ethnocide - the case of Australia, Anne-Marie Willis and Tony Fry. Part 3 identity: introduction, Jurella Andrews; identity - reality or fiction?; identity and myth today, Ticio Escobar; the voice of a Palestinian in exile, Edward Said; the others - beyond the salvage paradigm, James Clifford; restless hybrids, Nikos Papastergiadis. Part 4 Film: introduction, Merryl Wyn Davies; dancing with words and speaking with forked tongues, Jean Fisher; Walt Disney and the double victimization of Pocahontas, Ziauddin Sardar; directing the real - Orapronobis and Philippine totalitarianism, Jonathan L. Beller; the critical practice and dialectics of third cinema, Michael Wayne. Part 5 Post theory: introduction, Jorella Andrews; queries for postcolonial studies, Ihab Hassan; signs of our times - discussion of Homi Bhabha's the location of culture, Benita Parry; the failure of postmodernity - how Africa misunderstood the West, Denis Ekpo; the Marco Polo syndrome, Gerado Mosquera. Part 6 Globalization: introduction, Julian Stallabrass; scene and obscene, Zygmunt Bauman; the new Asian museums in the age of globalization, Rustom Bharucha; cybersublime - representing the unrepresentable in digital art and politics, John Byrne; against the double blackmail, Slavoj Zizek; obscene from any angle, George Ritzer. Epilogue - a new beginning - beyond postcolonial cultural theory and identity politics, Rasheed Araeen.
