The Platypus Synthesis: History, theory, and practice Transcript of the plenary presentations and discussion at the 1st annual Platypus Affiliated Society international convention, Chicago, June 12–14, 2009. (Audio recording.) History, theory Chris Cutrone I WANT TO BEGIN, straightaway, with something Richard raised, on which I would like to try to elaborate, by way of properly [...]

The Platypus Synthesis: History, theory, and practice Transcript of the plenary presentations and discussion at the 1st annual Platypus Affiliated Society international convention, Chicago, June 12–14, 2009. (Audio recording.) Introducing Platypus Ian Morrison, President of the Platypus Affiliated Society WHAT IS PLATYPUS? Platypus was set up as an attack on thought-taboos.  From the start, we’ve [...]

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago 112 South Michigan room # 707 5-6:30 We want everyone from SAIC, UChicago, Loyola, DePaul and other Chicago platypi to a city-wide meeting and a night on the town. It’s about time everyone from around the city meets face to face to talk about the future of [...]

” ‘[Humanity] always sets itself only such problems as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely it will always be found that the problem itself arises only when the material conditions for its solution are already present or are at least understood to be in the process of emergence’ [Marx, Preface to [...]

“The Left is Dead! — Long Live the Left!” Chris Cutrone “The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.” — Karl Marx, The 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon (1852) “The theorist who intervenes in practical controversies nowadays discovers on a regular basis and to his shame that [...]