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I am reposting this article/originaly posted in WideWalls by Andrey V. It is rare for an art movement to be completely original. The go forward meanings of avant-garde do not mean that its movements are a tabula rasa and this is certainly true for Situationism. Spurred by many previous concepts,
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*The following article by Jeanne Willette is reposted from Art History Unstuffed, originally posted March 2, 2012.   Theodor Adorno and “Negative Dialectics”   THEODOR ADORNO (1903-1969) AND IDENTITY Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno wrote their critique of the culture of Western civilization, Dialectic of Enlightenment during the Second World War. When the book
*This essay by John Abromeit is reposted from Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture. If one wants to address the question of what Frankfurt School Critical Theory can still teach us about the resurgence of right-wing populism in Europe and the United States in recent times, one must call
*The following interview of Herbert Marcuse by Larry Hartwick is reposted from the Publications Page of the Official Herbert Marcuse website, managed by Harold Marcuse. This interview, conducted in 1978, originally appeared in a locally distributed publication at the University of California, San Diego: Contemporary Literature 22(1981), 417-424 On the
*This is reposted from Kapitalism101, 4/20/10.  An economic crisis is also a time of ideological crisis. It’s a time when people start to reevaluate their ideas about the world, questioning some of the most basic assumptions they once had. Every capitalist crisis in history has brought about a rethinking and
Being succumbs to the delivery of zonal essays. Senses perturbed by non-knowledge. Tagorian syndrome of afilial muddy local. Yet, the husky International. Beneath the sturdy grass field, the local resonates the sounds of Global. Next phase tea-dom. Merry go round the syndicate, who’s who admonisher. Hundred kilometre north point stays,
This is the first installment of what I intend to be an ongoing personal blogging project called “Critical Theory Down to Earth.” In these posts I will provide summaries and brief reflections of writings throughout the wider critical theory landscape. Because I am personally drawn toward epistemology, first generation Frankfurt