Participants included:
- Fredric Jameson, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University, well known as a theorist of postmodernism;
- Bruno Latour, director of the Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation in the Ecole des Mines, Paris, and a philosopher in the history and philosophy of science;
- Boris Groys, philosopher and aesthetician at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, known as a theorist of art in post-Cold War Europe;
- Antonio Negri, professor at the University of Padua, Italy, a well-known contemporary moral and political philosopher;
- and Rosalind Krauss, Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art History at Columbia University, widely known as a theorist of modern and contemporary art in the United States.
Published as Antinomies of Art and Culture: Modernity, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity, ed. Terry Smith, Okwui Enwezor, and Nancy Condee (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008).