The Many Deaths of Art

A Panel Discussion

A panel discussion held on October 7 2014, at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Adam Turl Benj Gerdes Matthew Jesse Jackson Ruslana Lichtzier Description The “death of art” has been a recurring theme within aesthetic and philosophical discourse for over two centuries. At times, this “death” has been proclaimed as an accomplished fact; at others, artists themselves have taken the “death of art” as a goal to be accomplished. [Read More]

"Imperialism"

What is it? Why Should We Be Against It?

However difficult the task of grasping and confronting global capital might be, it is crucially important that a global internationalism be recovered and reformulated… The Left should be very careful about constituting a form of politics that, from the standpoint of human emancipation, would be questionable, at the very best, however many people it may rouse. —Moishe Postone, “History and Helplessness” (2006) A moderated panel discussion and audience Q & A on issues of global capital, imperialism and war, possibilities for progressive political opposition, and the problems and tasks for the Left in the post-Cold War and post-9/11 world raised by the invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq. [Read More]