21st Century Socialism
08 March 2022 A day to celebrate and remember all that has been achieved for women’s rights and raise awareness on the persisting gender equality gap. In a utopian world, such a day would not be needed. Unfortunately, there are still many issues to be addressed when it comes to…
ANGELIKI MITROPOULOU 16th February 2022 As Greece shows in extremis, the cultural sector is crying out for appropriate social policies. For the first time in decades, in 2020 longstanding cultural institutions around Europe were forced by the coronavirus to close their doors to visitors and employees. From March that year, cinemas and…
ROBERT MISIK 14th February 2022 To change the pessimistic Zeitgeist, left-wing politics and radical art must renew their alliance, Robert Misik writes. Left-wing and progressive parties continue to win elections. Only rarely, it’s true, with strategic majorities, as for the socialists recently in Portugal. But there have been surprising successes, such as that…
Originally From: https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/rigorous-beauty?pc=1424 SAUL NELSON 17 FEBRUARY 2022 CULTURE Freedom in art is never simple. This is the basic lesson of modernism. Rule follows rupture. Technical restriction opens onto formal innovation, and vice versa. As Theodor Adorno observed in Aesthetic Theory (1970), the artists who came to matter most to twentieth-century modernism…