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. Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn A...