Chris Cutrone discusses his book The Death of the Millennial Left on Dustbowl Diatribes with Laurie Johnson.
The Death of the Millennial Left book launch author discussion at SAIC
On October 6th at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a book talk by Chris Cutrone on his new book The Death of the Millennial Left: Interventions 2006-2022.
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The Millennial Left, facing the War on Terror, the Great Recession, the Arab Spring and the Occupy Movement, and the Black Lives Matter protests, as well as the Presidencies of Obama and Trump and the political discontents expressed by Bernie Sanders, Brexit and Jeremy Corbyn, SYRIZA et al, was tasked with the struggle for socialism in the core of global capitalism. It failed to even attempt this task. In the essays collected here, spanning the Millennial generationās many agonies, Chris Cutrone cuts through the accumulated legacy of failures that the Millennials inherited from the Left of the 20th century and that blocked their view of the socialist politics needed to turn the crisis of neoliberal capitalism into a struggle to overcome capitalism. A critique of the history of the recent and current Left, the book is also a lesson in politics: the politics marking the 21st century and the absence of Marxism informing the Left as much as the Right. It is essential reading for anyone interested in a socialist politics of freedom.
Chris Cutrone is the Last Marxist. Cutrone teaches in the Departments of Art History, Theory and Criticism and Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago . He is an Instructor at the Institute for Clinical Social Work and was a longtime lecturer in the Social Sciences Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago, where he completed the PhD degree in the Committee on the History of Culture and the MA in Art History. His doctoral dissertation was on Adornoās Marxism. He received the MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the BA from Hampshire College. He is also a writer and media artist committed to critical thinking and artistic practice and the politics of social emancipation. He is the original lead organizer and Chief Pedagogue of the Platypus Affiliated Society, an international Marxist educational project.
Chris Cutrone with Theory Underground in Chicago (video and audio recordings)
Chris Cutrone and the Platypus Affiliated Society meet Theory Underground on its book tour of the United States for Underground Theory, in which Cutrone’s essay on “The negative dialectic of Marxism” is included.
Chris Cutrone and Doug Lain on Marxism as a religion
This week’s Cutrone Zone takes up the claim that Marxism is a religion and Marx is the Pope. Can we demonstrate that Marx’s thought and Marxism are something more than noble lies told to prop up what is, ultimately, an absurd existence?
Chris and Doug continue to discuss the current political moment in the Parrot Room.
Chris Cutrone discusses The Death of the Millennial Left at Sublation Summer Conference in New York (video and audio recordings)
Chris Cutrone discusses his book The Death of the Millennial Left at the Sublation Summer Conference in New York.
Chris Cutrone with Sohrab Ahmari on Tyranny Inc and The Death of the Millennial Left (video and audio recordings)
Chris Cutrone and Sohrab Ahmari discuss their new books Tyranny Inc and The Death of the Millennial Left at the Sublation Summer Conference in New York, joined by Ashley Frawley, Jacob Siegel and Douglas Lain.
Chris Cutrone with Doug Lain on Marxism and capitalism as an illness
Chris Cutrone’s “Cutronezone” featuring a conversation about his 2018 essay “The future of socialism: What kind of illness is capitalism?”
Chris Cutrone on Common Ruin podcast on the Left and Marxism (audio recordings)
Chris Cutrone joins host Michael AcuƱa to analyze Marxismās place within the broader Left-wing movement historically, as well as themes from Cutroneās latest work The Death of the Millennial Left.
In the second half of their exchange, Michael AcuƱa and Chris Cutrone continue to examine Marxismās relationship to the Left. Virtue ethics, liberalism, and the question of immigration are also given consideration.
Chris Cutrone on Sublation Show on Trump indictments and authoritarian Democrats
Chris Cutrone joins Ashley Frawley and Douglas Lain to discuss the political implications of the Trump indictments and to discuss how an independent socialist movement could interpret this political moment.
What will 2024 bring to America? What is a constitutional crisis?
Chris Cutrone with Doug Lain on Lenin’s liberalism (video and audio recordings)
Chris Cutrone, author of The Death of the Millennial Left, former president of the Platypus Affiliated Society, professor of critical theory and art, continues to reign in the CutroneZone, discussing his 2011 essay on “Lenin’s liberalism,” to be included in his forthcoming book Marxism and Politics.