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Art has gotten so boring. W. David Marx knows why.

This week, the editors revisit writer-artist Constance DeJong’s “In Between the Dark and the Light,” a piece published in January 1981 on “Television/Society/Art,” a symposium held at the Kitchen in New York City the prior autumn. DeJong’s Reader (Primary Information), an anthology of eighteen texts including out-of-print and unpublished works, is in bookstores now.Before the internet, television was of course the messiah-bogeyman of consequence, promising liberation via the democratic dissemination of information as it reinforced mass psychology and mores. With the participation ...

Karl Marx’s thought is justifiably characterized as “materialist.” In his doctoral dissertation, he had contrasted the theories of Democritus and Epicurus, both of whom rejected Pythagorean-Platonic notions of a separate world of the “spirit” (i.e., of eternal “patterns” from which transient, this-world things supposedly derived). Like many radical humanists of the mid-19th century, Marx was

Manifesto and Program of the United Workers Party of America, soon to be known as the Council Communists, which was a group formed by councilists formerly involved in the unemployed movement during The Great Depression and a left-wing split-off from the Proletarian Party of America.

After the demise of the USSR on December 26, 1991, the Russian left had to find its place in a society transformed beyond recognition. In the (...)