As Radical as Reality Itself

The Editors: Matthew Beaumont is Lecturer in English Literature at University College London.Andrew Hemingway is Professor of Art History at University College London. Esther Leslie is Professor of Political Aesthetics at Birkbeck College, University of London. John Roberts is Senior Research Fellow in Fine Art at the University of Wolverhampton.

• Contents: Matthew Beaumont: Preface – John Roberts: Marxism and Art Theory: A Short Conspectus – Andrew Hemingway: Marxist Art History Now – Esther Leslie: Marxism Against Cultural Studies – Satish Padiyar: Shadow of Agency: Derrida, Marx, David – Mary K. Coffey: Representation, Institutionalization, and the State: Marxist and Post-Structural Approaches to Mexican Muralism and the Popular – Paul Jaskot: Marxism and the Built Environment in the Twenty-First Century: Millennium Park in Chicago and the Question of Private and Public Space – Christina Kiaer: The Socialist Objects of Russian Constructivism as a Model of Aesthetic Value – Jutta Held: Work as an Artistic Motif: Theoretical and Pictorial Models from the DDR: An Historical Sketch – Wojciech Tomasik: I Demolish Moscow! Acts of Symbolic Destruction in the Post-Communist Period – Anselm Jappe: Were the Situationists the Last Avant-Garde? – Peter Smith: Never Work! The Situationists and the Politics of Negation – Frances Stracey: Consuming the Spectacle: The Watts Revolt and a New Proletariat – David Cunningham: Architecture in the Age of Global Modernity: Tafuri, Jameson and Enclave Theory – Barry King: Modularity and the Aesthetics of Self-Commodification – Drew Milne: Processual Performance: Critical Notes on Adorno’s Autonomous Artwork – Ben Watson: The Theory of Value in Marx and Adorno – Rasheed Araeen: Globalization, Cultural Difference, and the Alternative to the Crisis of Art Today – Geoff Cox: Sub Disorder(). After ‘The Author as Producer’ – Gregory Sholette: Dark Matter, Activist Art and the Counter-Public Sphere.