Preface / Elizabeth Cropper -- Introduction / Leah Dickerman -- Zurich dada : the aesthetics of exile / T. J. Demos -- Bad dada (Evola) / Jeffrey T. Schnapp -- The real demolished by trenchant objectivity : Carl Einstein and the critical world view of dada and "verism" / Uwe Fleckner -- Raoul Hausmann's optophone : "universal language" and the intermedia / Marcella Lista -- Merz and memory : on Kurt Schwitters / Leah Dickerman -- A bashed ego : Max Ernst in Cologne / Hal Foster -- New York dada : beyond the readymade / Amelia Jones -- Rrose Selavy goes shopping / Helen Molesworth -- Keep smiling / George Baker -- Dada's diagrams / David Joselit -- The "confrontation of modern values" : a moral history of dada in Paris / Arnauld Pierre -- Pen pals / Matthew S. Witkovsky