Afropolis / Achille Mbembe and Sarah Nuttall -- Aesthetics of superfluity / Achille Mbembe -- People as infrastructure / Abdoumaliq Simone -- Stylizing the self / Sarah Nuttall -- Gandhi, Mandela, and the African modern / Jonathan Hyslop -- Art Johannesburg and its objects / David Bunn -- The suffering body of the city / Frederic le Marcis -- Literary city / Sarah Nuttall -- Instant city / John Matshikiza -- Soweto now / Achille Mbembe, Nsizwa Dlamini, and Grace Khunou -- The arrivants / Tom Odhiambo and Robert Muponde -- Johannesburg, metropolis of Mozambique / Stefan Helgesson -- Sounds in the city / Xavier Livermon -- Noctural Johannesburg / Julia Hornberger -- Megamalls, generic city / Fred de Vries -- Yeoville confidential / Achal Prabhala -- From the ruins / Mark Gevisser -- Reframing township space / Lindsay Bremner -- The risk of Johannesburg / Argun Appadurai and Carol A. Breckenridge