The Autumn term Visual Cultures Public Programme uses these latest developments in philosophy and art as a point of departure for a series of talks from thinkers and artists that might be said to connect with, parallel, pre-date or critique what has come to be known as the speculative turn.

Globe, global, globalizing, globalization, globality: all these words have the same Latin root: globus: round mass, sphere, ball. The main characteristic of this etymological root and of its derivatives is the assumption that we are dealing with an object that can be articulated as such. But what...

Within the theoretical humanities there has recently been a resurgence of interest in objects and objectivity often pitched against those ontologies that are more relational. Of course, it might be said that an interest in objects has always been a concern of art history and practice (not least...