Peter Osborne Books
The Postconceptual Condition
Tracking the postconceptual dimensions of contemporary artIf, as Walter Benjamin claimed, “it is the function of artistic form … to make historical content into a philosophical truth&r...
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Tracking the postconceptual dimensions of contemporary artIf, as Walter Benjamin claimed, “it is the function of artistic form … to make historical content into a philosophical truth&r...
Read MoreAnywhere or Not at All
A new reading of the philosophy of contemporary art by the author of The Politics of TimeContemporary art is the object of inflated and widely divergent claims. But what kind of discourse can open...
Read MoreCrisis as Form
How does contemporary art best respond to social crisis? Through reflection on its own crisis of formCriticism of contemporary art is split by an opposition between activism and the critical functi...
Read MoreThe Politics of Time
If Aristotle sought to understand time through change, might we not reverse the procedure and seek to understand change through time? Once we do this, argues Peter Osborne, it soon becomes clear th...
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