Adorno’s Marxism

University of Chicago PhD dissertation

Chris Cutrone

Adorno’s Marxism was successfully defended on November 12, 2012 and officially submitted on March 4, 2013 źµ¬ė¦„ė¹µ ė™ģ˜ģƒ ė‹¤ģš“ė”œė“œ. Chris Cutrone graduated from the University of Chicago, receiving the PhD in the Committee on the History of Culture, on March 22, 2013.

Theodor W blitz ķ”„ė”œź·øėžØ ė‹¤ģš“ė”œė“œ. Adorno’s writings comprise an attempted recovery of Marx for a dialectic of 20th century social and cultural forms. Through immanent critique of modern aesthetic, philosophical, political and psychological forms of social subjectivity and its antinomies, contradictions and discontents, including those of ostensible Marxism, the thought figures of Adorno’s essays are modeled after and attempt to elaborate Marx’s self-reflexive critique of the subjectivity of the commodity form visual studio 2010 ultimate ė‹¤ģš“ė”œė“œ. Adorno’s critical theory considers modern aesthetic form as social form. Following Marx, Adorno’s critique of modern social forms is concerned with their potential for emancipation as well as domination: the term “culture industry,” for instance, is meant to grasp comprehensively the context for the critical social object and form of aesthetic subjectivity in common for practices of both “hermetic” art and “popular” culture, and is meant to characterize the condition and possibility for critical subjectivity itself, including Adorno’s own 12 albums of aninodating. In Adorno’s essays, objects of cultural criticism become “prismatic,” illuminating the formation of subjectivity and providing moments for critical reflection and recognition ģ—°źµ¬ģ¼ģ§€ ģ–‘ģ‹. However, Adorno’s works faced and sought to provoke recognition of the possibility and reality of social regression as well as regression in thinking getting over it apk. Coming after the collapse of 2nd International Social Democracy in 1914 and the failure of world revolution 1917-19, and inspired by Georg LukĆ”cs and Karl Korsch’s thought from this period, Adorno developed a critique of 20th Century society that sustained awareness of the problematic of Lenin, Luxemburg and Trotsky’s Marxism ķƒ­ ģ†Œė‹‰ ė²„ź·ø ķŒ. The coincidence of the later reception of Adorno’s works with the emergence of social discontents, oppositions and transformations of the 1960s New Left and its aftermath, however, obscured Adorno’s thought during two decades of “postmodernism,” whose exhaustion opens possibilities for reconstruction of and development upon the coherence of Adorno’s dialectic, as expression of the extended tasks and project of Marxism bequeathed by history to the present Spring s3 file. [PDF March 2013]

Chris Cutrone

Chris Cutrone is a college educator, writer, and media artist, committed to critical thinking and artistic practice and the politics of social emancipation. ( . . . )

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CPGB contra LukƔcs

Bad Country

Communist Party of Great Britain (Provisional Central Committee)
contra Georg LukƔcs

James Turley, Chris Cutrone, Lawrence Parker

Originally published in Weekly Worker January 24 ā€“ March 14, 2013 Free download to excel. [PDF]

articles:

James Turley, ā€œThe antinomies of Georg LukĆ”csā€ 1/24/13

Chris Cutrone, ā€œRegressionā€ 1/31/13

James Turley, ā€œDummyā€ 2/21/13

Chris Cutrone, ā€œNota beneā€ 2/28/13

James Turley, ā€œBaconā€ 3/7/13

Lawrence Parker, ā€œLukĆ”cs reloadedā€ 3/7/13

Chris Cutrone, ā€œUnreloadedā€ 3/14/13

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