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Frankfurt School Today: #2 Douglas Kellner - Marcuse's Great Refusal

Aug 30, 2021
01:01:13

In the second in this series Mike Watson talks to Douglas Kellner,   author of several books on Critical Theory including Herbert Marcuse and  the Crisis of Marxism, Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism  and Beyond, and American Nightmare Donald Trump, Media Spectacle, and  Authoritarian Populism.

Martin Jay is George Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education at the University of California, Berkeley.

In September Springer publish Kellner's Technology and Democracy: Toward  A Critical Theory of Digital Technologies, Technopolitics, and  Technocapitalism.

You can preorder Mike Watson's The Memeing of Mark Fisher: How the Frankfurt School Foresaw Capitalist Realism -- https://www.waterstones.com/book/memeing-of-mark-fisher-the/mike-watson//9781789049336

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