Christian Noakes

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The New Thing: Jazz Music in the Cold War, 1950-1970 with Christian Noakes

Christian Noakes, June 17, 2024

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Against the Undead Cult of Socialist Realism

Christian Noakes, November 4, 2022

Christian Noakes takes aim at nostalgic mobilizations of socialist realist visual art, arguing that U.S. socialists must both become more familiar with socialist art made outside the Soviet Bloc and begin to make art of their own. Read Article.

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Alienation and Social Reproduction among the Subaltern

Christian Noakes, December 22, 2018

Christian Noakes argues that the theoretical work of Antonio Gramsci, put in historical context, can help us understand the issues of sectarianism among oppressed groups that pit the oppressed against one another and the need to move beyond such sectarianism for a project of universal human emancipation. Read Article.