participating in mic
Dear All,
The Marxism in Culture reading group will resume its monthly meetings on Friday the 12th of February 2010 at 5.30. The group meets on Friday evenings in SR5 at the UCL History of Art Department, 20-21 Gordon Square, and discusses key texts, both historical and contemporary, that bear on Marxist aesthetics and radical cultural theory and practice more generally. Thus far, we have discussed texts by Marx and Engels, Lukacs, Brecht, Adorno, Bensaid, Eagleton,
spring term 2010
MARXISM IN CULTURE: PROGRAMME FOR SPRING TERM 2010
Friday 22 January
Discussion of the film Venezuela from Below
Gail Day (University of Leeds)
Friday 26 February
Marxism & Orientalism
Gilbert Achcar (School of Oriental & African Studies)
Friday 5 March
Advertising and the Politics of Aesthetics
Michael Sayeau (University College London)
Friday 26 March
Shaftesbury’s Theory of Art: Substance and Identity
Richard Checketts (Royal College of Art)
All seminars start at 5.30pm, and are held in the Wolfson Room (unless otherwise indicated) at the Institute of Historical Research