Peter Osborne (philosopher)

He has acted as a consultant to the Education Programme at the Tate Britain art gallery in London[7] and In Defence of Philosophy] on the Tate Channel)[7] and is consultant for the Office of Contemporary Art (OCA) in Norway with regard to the representation of Norway at the 2011 Venice Biennale.

[1][8][9] In April 2010, Middlesex University decided to close down Philosophy, its highest research-rated subject.

The website set up as part of the effort to do so is still running today and is continually updated vis-à-vis related campaigns and issues.

[10][11][12] Broadly speaking, Osborne's project has followed the conception and function of philosophy as 'its own time comprehended in thought' (Hegel).

[15] In a recent exchange with his colleague Eric Alliez at the Stanley Picker Gallery on 27 April 2007, Osborne explained that at "the end of the Eighties, my project became to "mediate Aesthetic Theory with the history of contemporary art since the 1960s" (understanding Adorno's project as "the project of mediating the transdisciplinary post-Kantianism of Benjamin's thought with the history of modernism") specifically, through the reinvention of 'the dialectic of construction and expression' (Philosophy and Contemporary Art After Adorno and Deleuze: An Exchange)[16]).

This is intimated in the title for a lecture he gave on Smithson at the Centre for Contemporary Art in 2008: 'An interminable avalanche of categories': conceptual issues in the work of Robert Smithson (or, once more, against 'sculpture'), as part of a series of lectures given by significant art historians under the title Cornerstones.

[22] He subsequently published an essay in issue 15 of the Pavilion Journal for Politics and Culture, entitled: Imaginary Radicalisms: Notes on the Libertarianism of Contemporary Art.