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 “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 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:

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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):

Chris Cutrone with Doug Lain and Ashley Frawley on the need for a new socialist party

Chris Cutrone discusses his pre-political project, the Campaign for a socialist party in the U.S., with Doug Lain and Ashley Frawley. In this week’s Sublation Media stream we re-evaluate the “culture war” as a form of “catch-all” politics, and announce our intention to create a proto-party internationally.

11 Theses on the Campaign for a socialist party in the U.S.:
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Chris Cutrone on Theory Underground on Israel-Palestine, Marxism and the “Left”

This was going to be a conversation mainly about Cutrone’s new book and course, but after a certain point pretty early in, the focus became Palestine-Israel, Hamas, what a “real Marxist” position would mean, why anti-imperialism ain’t it. Gabriel Rockhill kept coming up because he’s big on that anti-imperialism is the Real Left Solution To The Riddle Of History or whatever, but TU does not necessarily endorse that view, knowing very little about Rockhill’s actual positions. This was not about Rockhill so much as Cutrone’s take on him and that tendency of the Left, which is interesting on its own.

Chris Cutrone with Doug Lain on neo-Stalinism and 2024 U.S. elections

The CutroneZone in the Parrot Room: Chris Cutrone and Douglas Lain discuss neo-Stalinism, MAGA Communism, Carlos Garrido of Midwestern Marx, and Doug’s conversation with Caleb Maupin and Peter Coffin. Public segment: Chris Cutrone and Douglas Lain discuss their plans to make a film about the 2024 Democratic and Republican Party conventions. They discuss the films Medium Cool (1969) and Robert Downey Jr.’s The Last Party (1992) as potential influences.