To the victor, the spoils: Review of Artforum’s May 2008 issue “May ’68″
Benjamin Blumberg “We succeeded culturally. We succeeded socially. And we lost politically.… I always say: ‘thank God!’” — Daniel Cohn-Bendit in interview on 1968, conducted by Yascha Mounk for The...
View ArticleCapital in history: The need for a Marxian philosophy of history of the Left
Chris Cutrone [Español] [Ελληνικό] [Deutsch] [The following is a talk given at the Marxist-Humanist Committee public forum on The Crisis in Marxist Thought, hosted by the Platypus Affiliated Society in...
View Articlenotes on Lukacs
I am writing with some brief, partial notes from our discussion at UChicago at yesterday’s (Sun. 3/8/09) reading group, on several essays from Georg Lukacs’s 1923 book History and Class Consciousness....
View Articlenotes on Adorno in 1968-69
I am writing with some very brief notes on Adorno’s last writings from 1968-69, the “Marginalia to Theory and Praxis,” “Resignation,” “Late Capitalism or Industrial Society? (AKA “Is Marx Obsolete?”),”...
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The Decline of the Left in the 20th Century Toward a Theory of Historical Regression On April 18, 2009, the Platypus Affiliated Society conducted the following panel discussion at the Left Forum...
View ArticleComments on Chris Cutrone’s review of Marxism and Philosophy by Karl Korsch
David Black [Philosophy] is the scientific expression of a certain fundamental human attitude… toward being and beings in general, and through which a historical-social situation often can express...
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The Marxist hypothesis: A response to Alain Badiou’s “communist hypothesis”
Chris Cutrone Platypus Review 29 | November 2010 Against Badiou ALAIN BADIOU’S RECENT BOOK (2010) is titled with the phrase promoted by his and Slavoj Žižek’s work for the last few years, “the...
View ArticleWhat is critique? forum (New York, 11/20/10) video
Posted below are two videos from the day-long symposium, What is Critique?, held on November 20th, 2010, at Parsons, the New School for Design, New York. The first video is from the afternoon panel,...
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The relevance of critical theory to art today
J.M. Bernstein, Lydia Goehr, Gregg Horowitz, and Chris Cutrone Platypus Review 31 | January 2011 On Saturday, November 20, 2010, Platypus hosted a panel entitled “The Relevance of Critical Theory to...
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Egypt, or, history’s invidious comparisons: 1979, 1789, and 1848
Chris Cutrone Platypus Review 33 | March 2011 [PDF] THE UPRISING IN EGYPT, which followed soon after the toppling of the old regime in Tunisia, succeeded in bringing down Hosni Mubarak on February 11,...
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Art, Culture, and Politics: Marxist Approaches [Media Recording]
Panel held as part of the third annual Platypus International Convention, on Saturday, April 30th, 2011, at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. After its apparent exhaustion as a project of...
View Articlenotes on Adorno in 1968-69
I am writing with some very brief notes on Adorno's last writings from 1968-69, the "Marginalia to Theory and Praxis," "Resignation," "Late Capitalism or Industrial Society? (AKA "Is Marx Obsolete?"),"...
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1933
The Decline of the Left in the 20th Century Toward a Theory of Historical Regression Platypus Review 17 | November 2009 [PDF] [Video Recording] [Ελληνικό] On April 18, 2009, the Platypus Affiliated...
View ArticleComments on Chris Cutrone’s review of Marxism and Philosophy by Karl Korsch
David Black Platypus Review 18 | December 2009 [PDF] [Philosophy] is the scientific expression of a certain fundamental human attitude… toward being and beings in general, and through which a...
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The Marxist hypothesis: A response to Alain Badiou’s "communist hypothesis"
Chris Cutrone Platypus Review 29 | November 2010 [PDF] [Ελληνικό] Against Badiou ALAIN BADIOU'S RECENT BOOK (2010) is titled with the phrase promoted by his and Slavoj Žižek’s work for the last few...
View ArticleWhat is critique? forum (New York, 11/20/10) video
Posted below are two videos from the day-long symposium, What is Critique?, held on November 20th, 2010, at Parsons, the New School for Design, New York. The first video is from the afternoon panel,Â...
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The relevance of critical theory to art today
J.M. Bernstein, Lydia Goehr, Gregg Horowitz, and Chris Cutrone Platypus Review 31 | January 2011 [PDF] [Audio Recording] [Video Recording] On Saturday, November 20, 2010, Platypus hosted a panel...
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Egypt, or, history’s invidious comparisons: 1979, 1789, and 1848
Chris Cutrone Platypus Review 33 | March 2011 [Article PDF] [Review PDF] THE UPRISING IN EGYPT, which followed soon after the toppling of the old regime in Tunisia, succeeded in bringing down Hosni...
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Art, Culture, and Politics: Marxist Approaches [Media Recording]
Panel held as part of the third annual Platypus International Convention, on Saturday, April 30th, 2011, at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. After its apparent exhaustion as a project of...
View ArticleHorkheimer in 1943 on party and class
Without a socialist party, there is no class struggle, only rackets Chris Cutrone Platypus Review #82 | December 2015 - January 2016 HORKHEIMER’S REMARKABLE ESSAY “On the sociology of class relations”...
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