Speculative Art Histories

The contributors include philosophers, art historians, architects and art practitioners. Takes a generous definition of art, including architecture, cinema, dance and new media, and the philosophical trajectories they engage with.

This collection brings together a series of creative responses to the recent speculative turn in Continental philosophy. The contributors include philosophers, art historians, architects and art practitioners. It takes a generous definition of art to include architecture, cinema, dance and new media.

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. It gives you both a genealogy of speculative art history and a provocatively experimental counter-discourse of new speculative art histories.
The contributors include philosophers, art historians, architects and art practitioners who go beyond the mere complementarity of philosophy and art history. They are generous with the types of art they examine, including architecture, cinema, dance and new media, and the philosophical trajectories they engage with.
Speculative Art Histories is published in association with Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam.