Lukas Meisner is currently doing his PhD in Venice and Erfurt on the Critical Theory of Political Autonomy. He co-authored Capitalist Nihilism and the Murder of Art with Eef Veldkamp (Arnhem: Aporia Publishing) and co-edited Avantgarden vom Kopf auf die Füße gestellt. Kritik an Kunst vs. Künstlerkritik with Theresa Walter (Berlin: Humboldt University Press) and in 2020 he published Das Buch der Wüste.
Articles
Political Economy of Postmodernism & the Spirit of Post-Bourgeois Capitalism
Abstract* If there still is a hegemony of postmodernism in today’s leftist academia, and if it can be analysed as the spirit of contemporary capitalism, then this poses a problem for nowadays’ leftist academia itself. I start with the premise that the just mentioned hegemony exists and present its analysis in neo-Marxist historical-materialist fashion (1).… Read More »