1. —Contributors

Peter Osborne

philosopher and writer, London

Peter Osborne is Professor of Modern European Philosophy and director of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University, London. He is also an editor of the British journal Radical Philosophy. Osborne’s books include: The Politics of Time: Modernity and Avant-Garde (1995/2010); Marx (2005); Conceptual Art (2002); and Philosophy in Cultural Theory (2000). He also edited the three-volume Walter Benjamin: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory (2005). Osborne’s writing on contemporary art includes contributions to the journals Afterall, Art History, October, and Oxford Art Journal, and catalogs accompanying exhibitions including: Matias Faldbakken: The Shock of Abstraction, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo and Ikon, Birmingham, 2009; The Quick and the Dead, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2009; and Sol Lewitt’s Sentences on Conceptual Art, Office of Contemporary Art Norway, Oslo, 2009. He is currently completing a book on the philosophical aspects of contemporary art. Osborne lives and works in London.