Stephan Hammel on Socialist Aesthetics, Proletkult, and the problems of the Frankfurt School

Stephan Hammel is a scholar and podcaster, co-host of the Measures Taken. We discuss Alexander Bogdanov, various incarnations of Proletkult, the political-economic assumptions of the Frankfurt school, the origins of workers' aesthetics,  the cultural turn, and the need for aesthetic theory after the Second international.

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