MG+MSUM

PETER OSBORNE | Use! Value! Exchange! Inside and Outside Relations of Exchange
21 April 2016 | 18:00
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Photo:  Still-image from the 2010 Phil Collins film Use! Value! Exchange!

 

Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, +MSUM

ABSTRACT – This talk borrows its title from the 2010 film by Phil Collins centred on the teaching of a class on Marx’s Capital to young people in eastern Germany after reunification. It reflects upon (i) the revival of interest in Marx’s critique of political economy, (ii) its continuing – indeed, increasing – relevance to the social experience of capitalist societies, and (iii) the possibilities of a new philosophical interpretation of Capital, centred on its complex structure of temporal categories. 

 

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Peter Osborne is Professor of Modern European Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), Kingston University London. In autumn 2015, he was International Visiting Chair in Philosophy in the Context of Art, at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm. He is a longtime editor of the British journal Radical Philosophy. His books include The Politics of Time: Modernity and Avant-Garde (1995; reprinted 2011), Philosophy in Cultural Theory (2000), Conceptual Art (2002), Marx (2005), El arte más allá de la estética: Ensayos filosóficos sobre el arte contemporáneo (CENDEAC, Murcia, 2010) and most recently, Anywhere or Not at All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art, Verso, 2013. Recent edited volumes include: The State of Things (co-ed. with Marta Kuzma and Pablo Lafuentes)Walter Koenig/OCA, London/Oslo, 2012 – texts from the Norwegian Representation at the Venice Biennale 2011 – and Spheres of Action: Art and Politics (co-ed. with Éric Alliez), Tate Publishing/MIT, London/Cambridge MA, 2013.

Catalogue essays include contributions to Manifesta 5, Tate Modern, 2006 Biennale of Sydney, Walker Art Center Minneapolis, Office of Contemporary Art Norway, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design Oslo, CGAC in Santiago de Compostela, and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León. He recently led the AHRC ‘speculative research project’ on ‘Transdisciplinarity and the Humanities’ (2011–13) and was the keynote speaker at the World Biennial Forum No. 2, in Sao Paulo, November 2014, Making Biennials in Contemporary Times