With and Against the Powers of Contingency: an Introduction

Stamatina Dimakopoulou

1-11

Figures of Chance and Contingency in Albert Kahn's Planetary Project

Marion Picker

12-33

Contingency as Medium in Gertrude Stein

Christine Savinel

34-49

“Poethic” Particulars: Anne Waldman’s Poetics of Detail in Manatee/Humanity

Laurence Bécel

50-71

What Really Happened? Kenneth Goldsmith’s “7+ Deaths and Disasters,” Sophie Calle’s, Take Care of Yourself

Marjorie Perloff

72-87

Before Us Is The Salesman’s House: Exploring the Contingent Aesthetic of eBay

David Rudrum

88-106

Automata: Professional Lives and the Time of the Contingent

Chryssa Marinou

108-124

Interview with Kostas Peroulis

Chryssa Marinou

126-131

The Literary Work as a Debt to Beauty

Tahar Bekri

132-138

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