'The essays in this timely volume perform a twin function: they attend to object-orientated philosophies, anti-correlationist aesthetics and the non-human; but also to that rich counter-tradition of Art History that has always attended to art's own speculative and inventive becomings. A must read for anyone interested in both the future and other pasts of Art History, but also for those working within the expanded fields of art theory and Contemporary Art.'Simon O'Sullivan, Goldsmiths College, University of London


A 'counter-discourse' of speculative approaches to art history

Situated at the interface of philosophy, aesthetics and art history, this collection brings together a series of creative responses to the recent speculative turn in Continental philosophy.

The range of contributors include philosophers, art historians, architects as well as art practitioners who seek to go beyond the mere complementarity of philosophy and art history. It is generous with the types of art including architecture, cinema, dance, new media and the philosophical trajectories it is engaged with.

This book provides both a genealogy of speculative art history and an experimental and provocative counter-discourse of new speculative art histories. The result is a stimulating and timely compendium.

Sjoerd van Tuinen is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Published in association with Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art

Cover design: Stuart Dalziel, based on a concept by Richard Budd

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Acknowledgements; Introduction, Sjoerd van Tuinen; 1. Asynchronous Present Past. Against the Regime of (Aesthetical) Correlationism, Armen Avanessian; 2. (Dis)enchanted Taiwanese Cinema, Schizoanalytic Belief, and the Actuality of Animism, Erik Bordeleau; Art Historical Systems: 3. Attractors and Locked-In Art: Art History as a Complex System, Francis Halsall; 4. Enduring Habits and Artwares, Adi Efal; 5. Mood (Stimmung) / Blandness (Fadeur): On Temporality and Affectivity, Vlad Ionescu; 6. The Plasticity of the Real: Speculative Architecture, Elisabeth von Samsonow; 7. Expressive Things: Art Theories of Henri Focillon and Meyer Schapiro Reconsidered, Kerstin Thomas; 8. Sympathy and Gothic ontology, Lars Spuybroek; 9. Serpentine Life: The Nature of Movement in Gothic, Mannerism, and Baroque, Sjoerd van Tuinen; 10. Space Always Comes After: It Is Good When It Comes After, It Is Good Only When It Comes After, Andrej Radman; 11. Speculation, Critique, Constructivism: Notions for Art History, Kamini Vellodi; 12. The Potentiality of Art, the Force of Images, and Aesthetic Intensities, Bertrand Prévost; Experiments: 13. Impossible! Bergson after Duchamp after Caillois, Sarah Kolb; 14. Economies of the Wild: Speculations on Constant's New Babylon and Contemporary Capitalism, Bram Ieven; 15. From Etienne Souriau's L'ombre de Dieu to Mats Ek's Shadow of Carmen, Fleur Courtois-l'Heureux; Author's biographies.