Marxism in Culture

Book presentation on Rose-Anne Gush’s monograph "Artistic Labour of the Body" Join this 'Marxism in Culture' seminar with Rose Anne-Gush, Alexander Stoffel, and Jenny Nachtigall. They will examine the use of the body and psyche as artistic material to explore Adorno’s concept o...

"Artistic Labour of the Body" Book presentation on Rose-Anne Gush’s monograph, with @rsenne.bsky.social Alexander Stoffel and Jenny Nachtigall.

Fri 20 March 2026, 5:30–7:30pm
@ucl-ias.bsky.social Common Ground, G11 Ground Floor, South Wing, UCL, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT

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Book presentation on Rose-Anne Gush’s monograph "Artistic Labour of the Body" Join this 'Marxism in Culture' seminar with Rose Anne-Gush, Alexander Stoffel, and Jenny Nachtigall. They will examine the use of the body and psyche as artistic material to explore Adorno’s concept o...

If anyone is in London next month, I'll be presenting my book Artistic Labour of the Body, at the Marxism in Culture seminar @marxisminculture.bsky.social, grateful to be joined by wonderful colleagues Jenny Nachtigall and Alex Stoffel @stoffelalex.bsky.social

Gail Day and Steve Edwards discuss their much-anticipated book on Allan Sekula Join this 'Marxism in Culture' seminar with Gail Day, Steve Edwards, Alex Fletcher and Stephanie Schwartz.They will be discussing Allan Sekula (1951–2013), the award-winning, anti-capitalist artist, p...

'Amphibious Realities: The Documentary Poetics of Allan Sekula' (2025 @versobooks.bsky.social)

Steve Edwards & Gail Day in discussion with Alex Fletcher & Stephanie Schwartz

Fri 30 Jan 5.30-7.30pm

@ucl-ias.bsky.social IAS Common Ground, G11, South Wing, UCL, WC1E 6BT
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Gail Day and Steve Edwards discuss their much-anticipated book on Allan Sekula Join this 'Marxism in Culture' seminar with Gail Day, Steve Edwards, Alex Fletcher and Stephanie Schwartz.They will be discussing Allan Sekula (1951–2013), the award-winning, anti-capitalist artist, p...

Gail Day & Steve Edwards discuss their much-anticipated book on Allan Sekula, 'Amphibious Realities'.
30 Jan, 5:30–7:30 pm
Join this @marxisminculture.bsky.social seminar on Allan Sekula, the award-winning, anti-capitalist artist, photographer, filmmaker and theorist.
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Mondrian’s Firebomb: Avant-Garde and Underdevelopment in Brazil This seminar reinterprets the trajectory of the short-lived Brazilian art movement known as “Neo-Concretism” Join this 'Marxism in Culture' seminar with Thomas Waller.

Mondrian’s Firebomb: Avant-Garde and Underdevelopment in Brazil, with Thomas Waller @thomaswaller.bsky.social

Friday 12th December, 2025
5.30-7.30pm

@ucl-ias.bsky.social Common Ground G11, ground floor, South Wing, UCL Gower St, London WC1E 6BT

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Mondrian’s Firebomb: Avant-Garde and Underdevelopment in Brazil This seminar reinterprets the trajectory of the short-lived Brazilian art movement known as “Neo-Concretism” Join this 'Marxism in Culture' seminar with Thomas Waller.

Mondrian’s Firebomb: Avant-Garde and Underdevelopment in Brazil, with Thomas Waller @thomaswaller.bsky.social

Friday 12th December, 2025
5.30-7.30pm

@ucl-ias.bsky.social Common Ground G11, ground floor, South Wing, UCL Gower St, London WC1E 6BT

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Theatre and Marxism(s) This talk tells the history of Marxism through an unusual lens: the theatre. Join this 'Marxism in Culture' seminar with Shane Boyle (Queen Mary University of London)

Theatre and Marxism(s), with Shane Boyle @shaneboyle.bsky.social

Friday 5th December 2025, 5.30-7.30pm

@ucl-ias.bsky.social
Common Ground G11, ground floor, South Wing, UCL Gower St, London WC1E 6BT

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Radioactive Marxisms & Atomic Fairytales from the former East Germany An Ultra-Violet Art History of Afterlives. Join this 'Marxism in Culture' seminar with Sara James (Manchester School of Art, MMU)

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Radioactive Marxisms & Atomic Fairytales from the former East Germany, with Sarah James

Friday 28th November 2025, 5.30-7.30pm

@ucl-ias.bsky.social Common Ground G11, ground floor, South Wing, UCL Gower St, London WC1E 6BT

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Radioactive Marxisms & Atomic Fairytales from the former East Germany An Ultra-Violet Art History of Afterlives. Join this 'Marxism in Culture' seminar with Sara James (Manchester School of Art, MMU)

Radioactive Marxisms & Atomic Fairytales from the former East Germany
28 November 2025, 5:30pm-7:30pm
An Ultra-Violet Art History of Afterlives. Join this @marxisminculture.bsky.social seminar with Sara James (Manchester School of Art, MMU)
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Rethinking Revolutionary Memory: The Production and Afterlives of Yugoslav Socialist Monuments Join this 'Marxism in Culture' seminar with Sanja Horvatinčić and Beti Žerovc.

⚡️First seminar of new academic year

Rethinking Revolutionary Memory: The Production and Afterlives of Yugoslav Socialist Monuments with Sanja Horvatinčić & Beti Žerovc

31st Oct 🎃, 5.30-7.30pm
@ucl-ias.bsky.social
IAS Common Ground
G11, South Wing, UCL,WC1E 6BT

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Tomorrow! 👇

On Yugoslav Construction Industry, Non-alignment, and Architecture We welcome you to this Marxism in Culture seminar with Dubravka Sekulić, who will discuss the Non-aligned Movement in Belgrade, focussing on the Energoprojekt and the central role the architecture dep...

Join us for our final seminar of the academic year:

Dubravka Sekulić (‪@dubravka.bsky.social‬)
'On Yugoslav Construction Industry, Non-alignment, and Architecture'

Friday 20 June, 5:30–7:30 pm

‪@ucl-ias.bsky.social‬ Common Ground, G11, South Wing, UCL, WC1E 6BT

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This should be great. All welcome

Music and Revolution in the Age of Disco We welcome you to this Marxism in Culture seminar with David Grundy, who will show how Amiri Baraka’s music and ideas might be useful for an idea of what popular music is, how it can be used, and how ...

Join us for our first seminar of the Summer:

'Music and Revolution in the Age of Disco', with David Grundy

Friday 23 May, 2025, 5.30pm

@ucl-ias.bsky.social‬ IAS Forum, G17, ground floor, South Wing, UCL, Gower St, London, WC1E 6BT

Free. All welcome. Details: www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Artist, comrade, and long-time visual contributor to the Historical Materialism project, David Mabb, has produced another great conference poster.

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3 Model of Form: Samuel Delany as a Theorist of Racial Capitalism We welcome you to this Marxism in Culture seminar with Samuel Fisher, who will discuss the paraliterary writings of Samuel R. Delany as occasions to think about how the literary mediates social form.

📢Our March Seminar:
'3 Model of Form: Samuel Delany as a Theorist of Racial Capitalism,
With Samuel Fisher.

Friday 28th March, 5.30-7.30pm, @UCL_IAS

IAS Common Ground, G11, ground floor, South Wing, UCL, Gower St, London WC1E 6BT.

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Image credit: Eastern Surf, ilovemyjob! (2017) Image courtesy of the artists

📢Our next Seminar:
'The Working Day in Contemporary Art',
Kirsten Lloyd.

Friday 28th February, 5.30-7.30pm, @UCL_IAS .

IAS Common Ground, G11, ground floor, South Wing, UCL, Gower St, London WC1E 6BT.

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The first Marxism and Culture seminar of 2025 is coming up, Toby Manning on 'Why Popular Music is Political'. Follow the Marxism in Culture account below and join their mailing list for more about their coming programme.

@repeaterbooks.bsky.social @histmat.bsky.social @jacobinmag.bsky.social @tribunemagazine.bsky.social

📣Our first seminar of 2025📣
🎙️Why Popular Music is Political🎛️
📢Toby Manning 📢

📅24 January, 5.30pm
🚩@UCL_IAS

IAS Common Ground, G11, ground floor, South Wing, UCL, Gower St, London WC1E 6BT

All welcome: www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...