Culture Now: John Roberts and Peter Osborne

Art theorist John Roberts discusses his new book Revolutionary Time and the Avant-Garde (Verso, 2015) with philosopher Peter Osborne.

John Roberts is Professor of Art and Aesthetics at the University of Wolverhampton. His books include The Art of Interruption: Realism, Photography and the Everyday; The Philistine Controversy (with Dave Beech), Philosophizing the Everyday and The Necessity of Errors and Revolutionary Time. He is also a contributor to Radical Philosophy, Oxford Art Journal, Historical Materialism, Third Text, and Cabinet magazine. He lives in London.

Peter Osborne is Professor of Modern European Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), Kingston University London. He is a long-serving member of the editorial collective of Radical Philosophy. His books include The Politics of Time, Philosophy in Cultural Theory, Conceptual Art, and Anywhere or Not at All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art.