Drawing together discourses on contemporaneity and new materialisms, this book examines a material conception of temporality that makes it possible to develop a critique of the philosophical discourse on presence. Claiming that "there is no now," Ebeling develops an archaeology of contemporaneity according to which the traces of the contemporary can only be secured through visual or material operations, not historical ones.The Contemporary Condition series edited by Geoff Cox and Jacob Lund, Volume 07Copublished with Aarhus University and ARoS Art Museum