Chris Cutrone

Chris Cutrone (b. 1970) is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Departments of Art History, Theory and Criticism and Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is a PhD candidate in the Committee on the History of Culture and a lecturer in the Social Sciences Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago. Cutrone's doctoral dissertation is on Theodor W. Adorno's Marxism.

Cutrone is the original lead organizer of the Platypus Affiliated Society, starting its reading group in Chicago in 2006. Cutrone has written extensively for the Platypus Review, and has spoken at many of Platypus's public forums, including on the topics of the relevance of Marxism and Frankfurt School Critical Theory today, the history of anti-black racism in the U.S., the U.S. invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq and the anti-war movement, the 2008 election of U.S. President Barack Obama, and the 2009 election crisis in Iran. From 1989–92, Cutrone was a youth member of the Trotskyist organization the Spartacist League, U.S. section of the International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist), from whose politics he subsequently broke.^[1]

Cutrone was born in 1970 and raised in Valley Stream on Long Island near New York City, and has lived in Chicago since 1993. Cutrone received the Master of Arts in Art History from the University of Chicago in 2005. Cutrone received the Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1996 and the Bachelor of Arts from Hampshire College in 1993.

Cutrone is a widely exhibited video artist, screening his works at the following media art exhibitions and film festivals, among others: Immedia, Ann Arbor; Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; Re:Solution, LA; Dumba, Exit Art, Knitting Factory and vOID, NY; Artists Television Access, San Francisco; MIX NYC '98, '96 and '93; Lesbian and Gay Film Festivals in Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Hamburg, London, LA, Mexico City, Montreal, NY, San Francisco, South Africa, Toronto, Turin and Vancouver.^[2]

Publications

Essays

"The Child with a Lion: the utopia of interracial intimacy," GLQ: a journal of lesbian and gay studies 6.2 (2000)[1]

"The Failure of the Islamic Revolution: the nature of the present crisis in Iran," International Journal of Žižek Studies 3.4 (2009)[2]

"The Marxist Hypothesis: a response to Alain Badiou's 'communist hypothesis'," The Platypus Review 29 (November 2010)[3]

References

1. ^ http://www.icl-fi.org/print/english/wv/874/iraq-let.html
2. ^ http://www.saic.edu/people/Cutrone_Christopher.html

External links

• Chris Cutrone's School of the Art Institute of Chicago faculty biography [4]
• Chris Cutrone's writings for The Platypus Review [5]
• Chris Cutrone: The Last Marxist [6]
• Chris Cutrone's curriculum vitae [7]

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