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On the legacy of critical theory

From Fast Capitalism, Mark P. Worrell (SUNY-Cortland): The Cult of Exchange Value and the Critical Theory of Spectacle; Charles Reitz (KCKCC): Marcuse In America — Exile as Educator: Deprovincializing One-Dimensional Culture in the U.S.A.; and a special issue on Paul Piccone, Telos, and the “Americanization” of Critical Theory, including essays by Timothy Luke, Russell Jacoby and Russell Berman. From Telos, a review of Confronting the Crisis: Writings of Paul Piccone. Frankfurt on the Hudson: Adam Kirsch on how the fathers of Critical Theory found their way to America (and more and more on Thomas P. Wheatland's The Frankfurt School in Exile: A Transatlantic Odyssey from Exile to Acclaim). Christian Garland reviews Negativity and Revolution: Adorno and Political Activism (and more). A review of Night Music: Essays on Music 1928–1962 By Theodor Adorno (and more). What might Adorno have said about Michael Jackson? Charles Taylor on Jurgen Habermas, philosopher-citizen. A review of Axel Honneth's Pathologies of Reason: On The Legacy of Critical Theory. From New Humanist, a review of The Transparency of Evil by Jean Baudrillard, The Cultural Turn by Fredric Jameson, The Democratic Paradox by Chantal Mouffe and Hegel Contra Sociology by Gillian Rose, all from Verso's "Radical Thinkers" series. A review of Commonwealth by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. From Artforum, Okwui Enwezor on Hardt and Negri’s profound if diffuse impact on artistic practice and on the art world more broadly. A review of In Praise of the Common: A Conversation on Philosophy and Politics by Cesare Casarino and Antonio Negri.