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Tuesday Mar 25, 2025
Tuesday Mar 25, 2025
On critical theory and autonomy.
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Jensen Suther, a junior fellow at Harvard working in philosophy and literature, talks to Alex H and contributing editor Alex Gourevitch about art, culture, and socialism. He also offers a riposte to previous guest Anna Kornbluh's discussion of immediacy, and its cultural forms such as autoficition.
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What does Suther think Kornbluh gets wrong – and right – in her critique of contemporary culture?
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How autonomous is art from society and the economy?
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To what extent can we tie cultural forms to deep changes in the economy?
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What is the right response to the historical defeat of the working class? What does it mean for critical theory?
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What is the difference between immanent critique and critique from the outside – and how dow this relate to freedom?
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And what does it matter if you read Hegel right?
Links:
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The Theory of Immediacy or the Immediacy of Theory?, Jensen Suther, Nonsite.org
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/473/ Make Alienation Great Again ft. Todd McGowan (features a different response to the question about critical theory after the defeat of the working class)
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Jensen's thread on X on capitalist totality and the end of the working class
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Jensen's thread on X on the return to Hegel, against economic determinism
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