Chris Cutrone and Douglas Lain discuss the essay “Do we need Adorno?” The essay was published in Nonsite in 2012 and is included in Cutrone’s new book Marxism and Politics: Essays on Critical Theory and the Party 2006-2024.
Chris Cutrone with Todd McGowan on Marx, Hegel, Adorno, Freud and Lacan
Chris Cutrone debates Todd McGowan on Hegelian dialectics and Freudian theory through Marx, Lenin, Adorno and Lacan.
Chris Cutrone with Nicholas Kiersey on The Death of the Millennial Left and Marxism and Politics
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Chris Cutrone discussed his books The Death of the Millennial Left and Marxism and Politics with Nicholas Kiersey in the Department of Political Science at the University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley.
Chris Cutrone with Doug Lain and Ashley Frawley on defending the Frankfurt School
Chris Cutrone joins Ashley Frawley and Douglas Lain to respond to Midwestern Marx’s Carlos Garrido and other Leftist criticisms of the Frankfurt School.
Book talk on Marxism and Politics at University of Chicago
On April, 4th 2024 as a part of its 2024 International Convention, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a book talk from Chris Cutrone for his upcoming book Marxism and Politics: Essays on Critical Theory and the Party 2006–2024 at the University of Chicago. Preview available at:
https://www.academia.edu/118222480/Marxism_and_Politics_Essays_on_Critical_Theory_and_the_Party_2006_2024_extract
Chris Cutrone is the last Marxist. He teaches Critical Theory at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Institute for Clinical Social Work and completed his PhD on Adorno’s Marxism at the University of Chicago, where he taught for many years in the Social Sciences Core Curriculum, and is the original lead organizer and chief pedagogue of the Platypus Affiliated Society. He is the author of Marxism in the Age of Trump (2018), The Death of the Millennial Left: Interventions 2006–2022 (2023) and Marxism and Politics: Essays on Critical Theory and the Party 2006–2024 (2024).
Chris Cutrone with Doug Lain on Finkelstein Vs. Destiny debate on Israel-Palestine
Chris Cutrone discusses the Norman Finkelstein vs. Destiny debate on the Lex Fridman show. How did the framing of this debate accept the very conditions that need to be overcome as immutable and permanent. How might socialists work to overcome these conditions? Chris Cutrone continues to discuss the Finkelstein debate, but we move on to discuss Frederic Jameson, the meaning of Academic Marxism, and what it is to be “pre-canceled” on the Left as a Marxist.
Chris Cutrone with Doug Lain on imperialism and the “Left”
Chris Cutrone returns for another CutroneZone, this time to explain what it means to live through “imperialism as the highest stage of capitalism.”
Chris Cutrone with Theory Underground on Marx’s critique of bourgeois political economy
How to read Das Kapital, value-form debates, and the “Left”? Cutrone visits the Capital Mondays crew for this special episode!
Chris Cutrone with Doug Lain on origins of modernism in art and Marxism
Chris Cutrone walks Doug Lain through the history of bourgeois and modernist art from Eugène Delacroix to Eduard Manet and the Impressionists and its relation to Marxism.