Reification, Technological Progress, and Post-Capitalist Horizons | Interview with Andrew Feenberg by R.C. Smith

R.C. Smith and Andrew Feenberg

November 27, 2015

Key Series: Critical Theory of Information, Communication, Media, Culture and Technology R.C. Smith, Andrew Feenberg In this interview I’ll be talking with Andrew Feenberg. Andrew currently holds the Cana... Read More...

Theorising Camps and Campitude

Martyn Hudson

October 20, 2015

Key Series: Philosophy of History, Anthropology and Critical Geography By Martyn Hudson 1.Introduction ‘Yet a gaze averted from the beaten track, a hatred of brutality, a search for fresh concepts not ... Read More...

The Anthropocene and a Critical Theory of Machines

Martyn Hudson

September 28, 2015

Key Series: Critical Theory of Information, Communication, Media, Culture and Technology By Martyn Hudson Abstract The significance of the idea of the Anthropocene epoch is centrally about the understa... Read More...

Systemic Cycles of Domination and Imagining the Horizon of Liberation: An Engagement with Dialectic of Enlightenment

R.C. Smith

July 10, 2015

Key Series: Critical Theory, the Crisis of Social Philosophy, Advancing the Frankfurt School Note: This is the second essay of a collection by R.C. Smith that examines certain key concepts of Adorno’s social... Read More...

Critical Perspectives on Television from the Frankfurt School to Postmodernism

Douglas Kellner

June 18, 2015

Key Series: Critical Theory of Information, Communication, Media, Culture and Technology By Douglas Kellner Paul Lazarsfeld (1942), one of the originators of modern communications studies, distinguished b... Read More...

The Frankfurt School and Anti-modern Movements? Beyond Adorno’s “Totalizing of Transformation”, Toward a Theory of “Differential Transformation”

R.C. Smith

May 25, 2015

Key Series: Critical Theory, the Crisis of Social Philosophy, Advancing the Frankfurt School Note: This is the first essay of a collection by R.C. Smith that examines certain key concepts of Adorno’s social ... Read More...

The Critical Theory of Religion

Rudolf J. Siebert

March 9, 2015

Key Series: Critical Theory of Religion This work aims to develop a new dialectical theory of religion as well as – on its foundation – a new critical political theology adequate for the 21st century. ... Read More...

A New Type of Human Being and Who We Really Are

Heathwood

March 3, 2015

Key Series: Critical Theory, the Crisis of Social Philosophy, Advancing the Frankfurt School For all that Critical Theory, not much critical thinking and even less critical politics as the primitive in human... Read More...

Utopian and Apocalyptic Thought

Richard Gunn

January 26, 2015

Key Series: Critical Theory, Advancing the Frankfurt School & the Crisis of Social Philosophy By Richard Gunn In his timely Heathwood article on the the dialectic of utopia, Michael Ott stresses ... Read More...

Barbarism: Notes on the Thought of Theodor W. Adorno

Heathwood

December 12, 2014

Key Series: Critical Theory, the Crisis of Social Philosophy, Advancing the Frankfurt School The whole thing is truly barbarism, and triumphs as such even over its own barbaric spirit. — Theodor W. Adorno ... Read More...

Exploring the Horizon of Social, Political and Economic Change: An Interview with R.C. Smith by John Wisniewski (Part 2)

R.C. Smith

December 8, 2014

You can read Part 1 here. Key Series: Occupy, Emancipatory Politics, Radical Democracy In the second part of this two-part interview, Robert discusses more about Occupy-style movements, economic alternati... Read More...

Occupy and Prefiguration – A Roundtable Discussion

R.C. Smith, Michael R. Ott, Adrian Wilding, Christian Fuchs and Richard Gunn

November 10, 2014

Key Series: Occupy, Emancipatory Politics, Radical Democracy This engagement, between a number of Heathwood authors, is intended to inspire interaction and discussion. It forms part of Heathwood's exploratio... Read More...

Compliance Fiction: Adorno and Horkheimer’s ‘Culture Industry’ Thesis in a Multimedia Age

Heathwood

November 7, 2014

Key Series: Critical Theory of Information, Communication, Media, Culture and Technology By Sam Caslin In today's multimedia, virtual world, the notion of the culture industry is perhaps more pertinent than... Read More...

Exploring the Horizon of Social, Political and Economic Change: An Interview with R.C. Smith by John Wisniewski (Part 1)

R.C. Smith

November 3, 2014

You can read Part 2 here. Key Series: Occupy, Emancipatory Politics, Radical Democracy In 2011, R.C. Smith published his first book: Consciousness and Revolt. This was followed by a collection of essays, ... Read More...

Theodor W. Adorno – Punctuation Marks

Heathwood

September 19, 2014

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‘Epistemic Violence’ – To dehumanise is to reduce the person to the status of an object

R.C. Smith

July 23, 2014

Key Series: Race, Class, Gender, Ability: Cultural Studies and Critical Intersections "Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administrat... Read More...

Sensation at Odds with Itself: Adorno on Aesthetic Negativity

Chris Conti

July 4, 2014

Key Series: Art and Aesthetics If the idea of objectivity remains the canon of all convincing aesthetic reflection, then its locus is the contradiction of each and every aesthetic object  in  itself,  as  we... Read More...

Alternative Media – Participation and Critique

Marisol Sandoval

May 30, 2014

Critical Theory of Information, Communication, Media, Culture and Technology By Marisol Sandoval Le Monde Diplomatique is a monthly newspaper for international politics, which aims to “stand out in an inc... Read More...

Digital Reproducibility and the Culture Industry: Popular Music and the Adorno-Benjamin Debate

Ryan Moore

May 28, 2014

Critical Theory of Information, Communication, Media, Culture and Technology By Ryan Moore Introduction The correspondence between Theodor W. Adorno and Walter Benjamin – two central figures in the dev... Read More...

Democracy in Crisis: Toward a Foundational, Alternative Theory of Participatory Democracy

R.C. Smith and Elliot Sperber

May 15, 2014

Key Series: Contemporary Social Movements, Emancipatory Politics, Radical Democracy By R.C. Smith (with contribution from Elliot Sperber) Abstract This paper by R.C. Smith (with contribution from E... Read More...