


Robert Lucas Scott
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Arts Research Fellow @JesusCollegeCam | writing a book on Gillian Rose | Reading Hegel @UChicagoPress, 2025 | ed. Marxist Modernism by Gillian Rose @VersoBooks










Missing from Adorno's work is the Hegelian notion of 'self-reference'; missing from the Marxism of both men (Adorno and Benjamin) is any notion of human activity or praxis. -- Gillian Rose







the labor theory of value is a theory of how capitalism ultimately ascribes value to things. capitalism has a a dim view of art generally and does not treat creating art as socially necessary labor, which is why the starving artist archetype exists