Chris Cutrone joins host Michael Acuña to analyze Marxism’s place within the broader Left-wing movement historically, as well as themes from Cutrone’s latest work The Death of the Millennial Left.
In the second half of their exchange, Michael Acuña and Chris Cutrone continue to examine Marxism’s relationship to the Left. Virtue ethics, liberalism, and the question of immigration are also given consideration.
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, 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.
TIR enters the CutroneZone to speak with the “King of the Plats” Chris Cutrone about his new book: The Death of the Millennial Left.
Platypus co-founder Chris Cutrone chats with us about his new book The Death of the Millennial Left. We chat about the socialist implications of the American Revolution, the irresistible conservative trajectory of suburban Millennials, and the Left’s troubled conception of freedom.Â
Chris Cutrone is an Adjunct Associate Professor 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 the author of a trio of infamous essays published on the Platypus Affiliated Society that begins with “Why not Trump?” (https://platypus1917.org/2016/09/06/w…) He is also the author of The Death of the Millennial Left, published by Sublation (https://www.sublationmedia.com/books/…) . Episode link: https://play.headliner.app/episode/15… (video made with https://www.headliner.app) The mentioned debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley Jr can be found here:    • James Baldwin vs …  (I’ve cued it up for you to skip the long-winded introductions.)
It’s Star Wars day! And we have some scholars on to discuss the importance of the Skywalker saga as a use of grand narratives of collective struggle for the Left.
Chris Cutrone’s essay on Star Wars: https://www.sublationmag.com/post/in-defense-of-the-star-wars-prequel-films
Adrian Johnston is the author of Zizek’s Ontology and a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico. Chris Cutrone is the author of the upcoming Sublation Media book, The Death of the Millennial Left, teaches Art History, Theory and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is the Last Marxist who co-founded the Platypus Affiliated Society. In this video they debate the relative merits of the Slovenian Lacan Left and the Freudian Frankfurt School tradition.
Chris Cutrone and Spencer Leonard are two of the founding and early members of the Platypus Affiliated Society (www.platypus1917.org). We talk about the origins of Platypus and its early mission.
Chris Cutrone drops in on the 2-day 30-hour marathon stream to talk about education and the Left. We were going to walk through the Platypus syllabus but then had too much fun talking about everything else instead.