I. Artists writing on artists writing. Image boink text: the erotic relationship of language and art (2012) / Bill Beckley -- Artist/critic? (2001) / Mike Kelley -- A constructed conversation between Kay Rosen and Virginia Woolf (2010) / Kay Rosen -- In the joyería of the zanahorias (2003) / Jimmie Durham -- Maroon (2008) / Moyra Davey -- Pegboard (2012) / Ryan Gander -- Surprise (2000) / Yve Lomax -- LTTR #1 editorial (2002) / Emily Roysdon, K8 Hardy, Ginger Brooks Takahashi -- The imperium of analytics (2011) Mira Schor -- Escape from discussion island (2009) / John Kelsey -- II. Artists writing on art. A lawless proposition (2011) / Paul Chan -- Manifesto of artists' rights (2012) / Tania Bruguera -- Go for it! (2002) / John Miller -- Always the same, always different (2005) / Frances Stark -- Black light: David Hammons and the poetics of emptiness (2004) / Glenn Ligon -- Starting from the picture: seat of power--a picture of being a woman artist (2013) / Jutta Koether -- FUSES (After Carolee Schneemann) (2005) / Caroline Bergvall -- Dispersion (2002) / Seth Price -- Postineternet: art after the internet (2011) / Marisa Olson -- Breaking and entering (2009) / Mary Walling Blackburn -- Trying to find the spiral jetty: Robert Smithson (2011) / Tacita Dean -- Blog posts on Erased de Kooning drawing (2011-13) / Greg Allen -- Fifteen minutes (2007) / Ronald Jones -- Ecoaesthetics: a manifesto for the 21st century (2008) / Rasheed Araeen -- III. Artists writing on their own work. Still in the cage: two undiscovered Amerindians twenty years later (2012) / Coco Fusco -- When thought becomes crime (2006) / Critical Art Ensemble -- Why I do ink painting (2014) / Qiu Zhijie -- Biography (2013-) / Bruce High Quality Foundation -- Studies in leadership (a family affair): prologue (2009) / Fia Backström -- The new aesthetic and its politics (2013) / James Bridle -- The super flat manifesto (2000) / Takashi Murakami -- The Slavs: redeeming the East in Eastern Europe / Slavs and Tatars -- Black Dada (2008/2015) / Adam Pendleton -- Proposal for total reflective abstraction (2004) / Josiah McElheny -- Groundwork (2011) / Helen Johnson -- Ideas (2001-2003) / Harrell Fletcher -- IV. Artists writing on the art world. What is it to be done?(2003) / Dmitry Vilensky -- Politics of art: contemporary art and the transition to post-democracy (2010) / Hito Steyerl -- Dear David: an exchange (2013) / Peter Rostovsky/David Geers -- Wo/manifesto (2008) / W.A.G.E. -- My job description (2001); my new job description (2011) / Adrian Piper -- How to be an artist by night (2009) / Raqs Media Collective -- **DeaR "young" artist (2006) / Pope.L -- Vagabond (feminist notes on victims, opponents, the educationally repressed, and the sites of their contestation) (2014) / Lili Reynaud-Dewar -- A future history (2012) / Michael Schwab -- The pieces of the game (2007) / Pablo Helguera -- Los Angeles to Myanmar (2014) / Koki Tanaka -- The islands of evasion: notes on international art English (2013) / Mariam Ghani -- Now it seems like a dream (2007) / Renée Green -- Tweets (2010-15) Deanna Havas -- Miley, Eric, and me: Basel's dazzle and the dark death around us (2014) / Mel Chin -- V. Artists writing on the whole world. The artist and the World Trade Center: a fugue (2004) / Olu Oguibe -- The effort to survive AIDS considered from the point of view of a race car driver (2002) / Gregg Bordowitz -- Some things I probably should not say and some things I should have said (fragments of a diary) (2008) / Emily Jacir -- A fortification of race (2006) / Ashley Hunt -- Beirut, illusion of a silver Porche (2006) / Naeem Mohaiemen -- Blog posts (2006-2009) / Ai Weiwei -- Untitled (2008) / Karin Schneider and Nicolás Guagnini -- Occupology, swarmology, whateverology: the city of (dis)order vs. the poeple's archives (2012) / Gregory Sholette -- It don't gitmo better than this (2013) / Molly Crabapple -- Letter from Şener Özmen (2014) / Şener Özmen -- A crossing (2015) / Natascha Sadr Haghighian -- Unititled (2015) / Juliana Huxtable -- VI. Artists writing as art. Script for official welcome (2001) / Andrea Fraser -- Excerpts from Reena Spaulings (2005) / Bernadette Corporation -- URL for artists statement no. 45,730,944: the perfect artistic website (2000) / YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES -- Excerpts from the crystal frontier (1999-) / Mai-Thu Perret -- Excerpt from one cycle of memory in the city of L. (2004) / Jill Magid -- Excerpt from transcript of the re'search (re'search waits's) (2009-2010) / Ryan Trecartin -- Excerpts from the dark object (2010) / Katrina Palmer -- Script from the studio visit (2012) / Jayson Musson -- Radio Ethiopia (2009) / Karl Holmqvist -- Chapter from collapsing in parts (2013) / Cally Spooner -- Excerpt from book from the ground (2013) / Xu Bing -- Networks in reverse: from the interplanetary internet via the ARPANET to the last pre-internet moment (2013) / Suzanne Treister.

"Since the turn of the millennium, artists have been writing, and circulating their writing, like never before. The seventy-five texts gathered here--essays, criticism, manifestos, fiction, diaries, scripts, blog posts, and tweets--chart a complex era in the art world and the world at large, weighing in on the exigencies of our times in unexpected and inventive ways." -- Publisher's description.