@rosaefluxemburg
Postdoctoral researcher in the History of Art department, University of Amsterdam and the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis. Member of the Historical Materialism Editorial Board. https://uva.academia.edu/LouisHartnoll
Detail of a page from a Victor Burgin article in Studio International from 1976. The image shows a bored woman, resting her cheek against her own clenched fist. At the bottom, in large, bold writing it reads: 'Class consciousness / think about it'
Don't mind me, just doing art historical research out here.
🚨CALL FOR ABSTRACTS🚨
We are proud to announce the call for abstracts for our 11th annual conference: FREEDOM.
The conference takes place at Copenhagen Business School on October 2-3 2026.
Read the full call here 👇 and submit before 1 May 2026 💌
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the doomsday clock moves closer to midnight
From a 1978 cover of Kunstwerk, a Dutch quarterly art history publication produced in Nijmegen.
Now online: a special dossier on the ongoing MEGA² edition and its international reception. With contributions from Kaan Kangal, Roberto Fineschi, Jean Quétier, Michael Schauerte and Thanasis Giouras, as well as a translation of the entry on 'MEGA' from the Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism.
new Radical Philosophy features a dossier of pieces on Frantz Fanon and Francesc Tosquelles - including wonderful articles by Lucie K Mercier and Elena Vogman, a new translation of a piece by Tosquelles on Fanon and an interview with Fanon collaborator Alice Cherki
Excited to announce an online book launch event for my first book 7th of April 1pm EDT sign up here
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/social-con...
Thanks for reading and the thoughtful response, Sam. I think I agree, and perhaps this also partially accounts for some of the attempts to 'renew' Marxist art history post-2008. (Seen from the Anglophone context, perhaps also having arisen out of a dissatisfaction with 'Visual Cultures'?)
This looks awesome!
Got stuck into this today. There's lots of bangers here
Um 1960 (!) hat Carl Schmitt dieses – von ihm nicht veröffentlichte – antisemitische Schmähgedicht gegen Theodor W. Adorno geschrieben (aus: Reinhard Mehring, Alternative Kritiker der „totalen" Weltgesellschaft)
Frontispice to a 1974 exhibition publication for ‘Kunst im 3. Reich’ showing a quote from Max Horkheimer which reads: ‘Wer vom Faschismus spricht, darf vom Kapitalismus nicht schweigen.’
Finally
Preliminary proofs are in......
“The Most Unsettling Reality is Our Own”: Instability of Form After the Global Turn - new article in the special issue of The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics on Marxist Aesthetics
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The last thing I wrote & published in 2025 was about how Pat Parker’s unpublished novel draft, “Assassination" situates a most pressing critique of counterrevolutionary art. To think about this novel, I looked to Bollas, Dionne Brand, Christina Sharpe and others
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the whole issue is amazing, but the introduction by @rosaefluxemburg.bsky.social @routhier.bsky.social and Tobias Dias cannot be missed!
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So happy to be a part of this…
*Neurath spotted*
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Not sure what to read on January 1st?
We got you comrades
The issue is far from comprehensive and offers nothing like a complete survey, but aims to provoke debate about some of the contemporary stakes of this contradictory yet hopefully generative idea.
Everything is open access and freely available.
Rose-Anne Gush (@rsenne.bsky.social), Angela Harutyunyan, Eunsong Kim (@aestheticspolitics.bsky.social), Daniel Spaulding, Kerstin Stakemeier, Josefine Wikström, and myself.
We have also written something of a genealogy of the term and an interpretation of its ‘three waves’ – 1930s, 60s–70s, now.
Just published…
Tobias Dias, @routhier.bsky.social, and I have edited a special issue of the Nordic Journal of Aesthetics on ‘Marxist Aesthetics’ with a suite of excellent contributions by Hannah Black, Mikkel Bolt, Tobias Dias, Tobias Ertl, E.C. Feiss, Jackqueline Frost, Seb B. Grossmann …
I wrote this, please read! (As usual when I have a thing come out I'm acutely aware of its limits but fwiw I'm excited this is out. I learned a lot writing it. Also: JHI blog editors were incredibly rigorous and vigorous, made the piece better as object and the process of writing it more edifying!)
Congratulations, looks great!
Will be speaking at this virtually tomorrow: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/...
Trying to argue that Rose's critique of Marxism/Critical Theory is still important for the development of critical marxism....
Unfortunately no, but we are hoping that we may be able to publish the talks in an anthology later down the line.
A reminder that this is happening on Wednesday...
Julia Roberts as philosophy professor: ‘Adorno writes in his Minima Moralia’
‘There is no right life in the wrong one.’
Watched ‘after the hunt’. Was worth it for these.
