Haseeb Ahmed with Chris Cutrone Platypus Review 42 | December 2011 – January 2012 [PDF] On November 5, 2011, using questions formulated together with Chris Cutrone, Haseeb Ahmed interviewed Slavoj Žižek at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, the Netherlands. The following is an edited transcript of their conversation. Haseeb Ahmed: Are we currently—after Tahrir [...]
December 1st, 2011 | PR web editor | 14 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "Theodor W. Adorno"
The politics of Critical Theory
THIRD ANNUAL PLATYPUS INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION Opening plenary Chris Cutrone, Andrew Feenberg, Richard Westerman, and Nicholas Brown Platypus Review 37 | July 2011 [PDF] The opening plenary of the third annual Platypus Affiliated Society international convention, held April 29–May 1, 2011 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, was a panel discussion between Nicholas [...]
July 9th, 2011 | PR web editor | 3 comments | Continued
Trotsky’s theory of art
Bret Schneider Platypus Review 37 | July 2011 [PDF] At its Third Annual Convention, held at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago between April 29-May 1, Platypus hosted a conversation on “Art, Culture, and Politics: Marxist Approaches.” Platypus members Omair Hussain, Lucy Parker, Pac Pobric, and Bret Schneider sought to address “What might [...]
July 1st, 2011 | PR web editor | 0 comments | Continued
Subject, class, and the Hegelian legacy in critical social theory
Timothy Hall Platypus Review 37 | July 2011 [PDF] At the 2011 Left Forum, held at Pace University in NYC between March 18-21, Platypus hosted a conversation on “Lukács’s Marxism.” Panelists Timothy Bewes (Brown University), Jeremy Cohan (Platypus), Timothy Hall (University of East London, U.K.), and Marco Torres (Platypus) were asked to address, “Who was [...]
July 1st, 2011 | PR web editor | 0 comments | Continued
After Hegel: An interview with Robert Pippin
Omair Hussain Platypus Review 36 | June 2011 [PDF] On March 14, 2011, Omair Hussain publicly interviewed Robert Pippin, on behalf of Platypus, at an event titled On the Possibility of What Isn’t at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Robert Pippin is a professor on the Committee on Social Thought and in [...]
June 1st, 2011 | PR web editor | 3 comments | Continued
Lenin’s liberalism
Chris Cutrone Platypus Review 36 | June 2011 [PDF] At the 2011 Left Forum, held at Pace University in NYC between March 18-21 , Platypus hosted a conversation on “Lenin’s Marxism.” Panelists Chris Cutrone of Platypus, Paul LeBlanc of the International Socialist Organization, and Lars T. Lih, the author of Lenin Reconsidered: “What is to [...]
June 1st, 2011 | PR web editor | 1 comment | Continued
Praxis, theory, and the unmakeable: An interview with Robert Hullot-Kentor
Chris Mansour Platypus Review 33 | March 2011 [PDF] On February 19, 2011, Chris Mansour of Platypus interviewed Robert Hullot-Kentor, noted Adorno translator and author of Things Beyond Resemblance: Collected Essays on Theodor W. Adorno. What follows is an edited transcript of the interview. Chris Mansour: For several decades you have been translating and interpreting [...]
March 1st, 2011 | PR web editor | 2 comments | Continued
The relevance of critical theory to art today
J.M. Bernstein, Lydia Goehr, Gregg Horowitz, and Chris Cutrone Platypus Review 31 | January 2011 On Saturday, November 20, 2010, Platypus hosted a panel entitled “The Relevance of Critical Theory to Art Today” moderated by Chris Mansour at The New School for Social Research in New York. The panel consisted of Philosophy Professors J.M. Bernstein [...]
January 1st, 2011 | PR web editor | 4 comments | Continued
What is critique? forum (New York, 11/20/10) video
Posted below are two videos from the day-long symposium, What is Critique?, held on November 20th, 2010, at Parsons, the New School for Design, New York. The first video is from the afternoon panel, The Art Critique: Its History, Theories, and Practices. This panel consisted of Tom Butter, Simone Douglas, and James Elkins; it was moderated [...]
November 20th, 2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
The Marxist hypothesis: A response to Alain Badiou’s “communist hypothesis”
Chris Cutrone Platypus Review 29 | November 2010 Against Badiou ALAIN BADIOU’S RECENT BOOK (2010) is titled with the phrase promoted by his and Slavoj Žižek’s work for the last few years, “the communist hypothesis.”1 This is also the title of Badiou’s 2008 essay in New Left Review2 on the historical significance of the 2007 [...]
November 6th, 2010 | PR web editor | 6 comments | Continued