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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Chris Cutrone lectures on Adorno and the negative dialectic of Marxism

Chris Cutrone’s academic lectures contextualize and explain Theodor W. Adorno’s book Negative Dialectics and dialectical epilegomena 1968-69, building upon prior lectures on Adorno’s essays on the negative dialectic in Marxism, Georg Lukacs’s ā€œThe phenomenon of reificationā€ and ā€œThe standpoint of the proletariat,ā€ parts 1 and 3 of ā€œReification and the consciousness of the proletariatā€ from History and Class Consciousness (1923), and Karl Korsch’s 1923 essay on ā€œMarxism and philosophy.ā€ From Cutrone’s Summer 2024 course on Marx and Marxism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Part 1, on Adorno’s essays on the negative dialectic of Marxism:

Part 2, on Adorno’s book Negative Dialectics:

Part 3, on Adorno’s dialectical epilegomena 1968-69:

Chris Cutrone lectures on Lukacs and Korsch on Marxism, reification, the proletariat and philosophy

Chris Cutrone’s academic lectures contextualize and explain George Lukacs’s “The phenomenon of reification” and “The standpoint of the proletariat,” parts 1 and 3 of “Reification and the consciousness of the proletariat” from History and Class Consciousness (1923) and Karl Korsch’s 1923 essay on “Marxism and philosophy.” From Cutrone’s Summer 2024 course on Marx and Marxism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Part 1, on Georg Lukacs “reification” in History and Class Consciousness

Part 2, on Lukacs “standpoint of the proletariat” in History and Class Consciousness:

Part 3, on Karl Korch “Marxism and philosophy” (1923):