## Note on Contributors

Hannah Black is a writer and artist. She lives and works in the south of France and New York.

Tobias Dias is an intellectual historian and art historian, theorist and cultural producer.  His  research  focuses  on  modern  and  contemporary  art,  as  well  as aesthetic theory from 1700 to the present. He is particularly interested in the 'politics of knowledge' and art's relation to labor, value, science, and race. His work (singly- and co-authored) has been published in journals and magazines such  as e-flux  journal,  T exte  zur  Kunst, kritische  berichte, and New  German Critique (forthcoming).  He  also  co-edited  the  anti-capitalist  handbook En anden økologi , published by Antipyrine in the Spring of 2025. His first monograph Elements  of  the  Revolution is  forthcoming  from  Minor  Composition. Alongside his employment as a postdoctoral researcher at Aarhus University (funded by New Carlsberg Foundation in a collaboration with the Museum Jorn),  and  editor  of The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics ,  he  is  also  a  Lecturer  at Jutland Art Academy and a member of the extradisciplinary collective Organ for the Autonomous Sciences. Last but not least, he runs the exhibition space Æsken in Aarhus, Denmark, with friends.

Tobias Ertl's work is situated at the intersection of modern and contemporary art history and materialist social theory. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the SNSF project 'Real Abstractions: Reconsidering Realism's Role for the Present' at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. His first book, forthcoming with Diaphanes in 2026, explores the critique of political economy as a filmic method in the work of Melanie Gilligan. He is currently working on a second book  on  communist  art  practice  and  materialist  aesthetics  in  late  Weimar Germany.

E.C.  Feiss is  a  writer  and  art  historian.  Her  work  addresses  modern  and contemporary art  through  its  involvements  with  the  state,  labor,  and  value. She studies claims for art's social utility: its revolutionary potential, or as added value in processes of reform, movement work, or procedures of justice. She also writes broadly about art after 1960. Recent writing has been published in the Radical History Review and The Routledge Companion to Marxism in Art History . She is an assistant professor of art history at Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

Jackqueline Frost is a historian of twentieth-century political thought and a theorist working in the field of political aesthetics. She teaches International Politics  at  the  University  of  London  Institute  in  Paris.  Her  monograph, The Past of Future Life: Anticolonial, Antifascism and the Poetics of Historical Time , is forthcoming from Columbia University Press. Her articles and essays have appeared  in  publications  such  as Historical  Materialism , Third  Text , Small Axe , Radical Philosophy , Contretemps , The Global South , Social Text , Continents manuscrits and others. With Jorge Lefevre Tavárez, she is editing a volume of Haitian Marxist theory for the Historical Materialism book series. Jackqueline is  a  faculty  member  of  the  CUNY  Institute  for  the  Radical  Imagination's Marxist Summer School in Kasos, Greece and a member of the teaching college of the Stockholm-based Institute of Advanced Studies in Political Aesthetics.

Seb  B.  Grossmann is  a  PhD  student  in  the  Department  of  English  at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. His thesis, 'The Communist-Literary Conjuncture,'  accounts  for  the  convergence  of  communist  theorizing  and communist literary production since the global economic crisis of 2007-08. He has writing forthcoming in Endnotes and a keyword on 'abolition' in Keywords for Value and Culture, a special issue of CLCWeb .

Rose-Anne  Gush is  an  art  historian  and  theorist,  and  sporadic  artist  and curator.  Her  research  critically  investigates  'global  art'  discourses,  feminist Marxist theories, and the politics of artistic labour, focusing on the body, geographies of extraction and liberation, the connections between antifascism and anticolonialism, and the central question of form. She is currently Assistant Professor at IZK-Institute for Contemporary Art at TU Graz, Austria. Her recent articles are published in Camera Austria, Berlin Review, FKW // Zeitschrift für  Geschlechterforschung  und  visuelle  Kultur, and Brand-New-Life  Magazine . Her first monograph, Artistic Labour of the Body (Brill) was published in 2025.

Louis Hartnoll studied aesthetics, art theory, philosophy, and visual cultures at the University of the Arts London, Goldsmiths, the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University  London.  With  support  from  the  Leverhulme Trust,  he  currently works as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Kunstgeschiedenis department at the Universiteit van Amsterdam and further serves as a member of the Editorial Board of Historical Materialism . With Andreas Selg, he is completing a monograph on Peter Weiss's The Aesthetics of Resistance .

Angela  Harutyunyan is  an  art  historian  and  curator.  She  is  Professor  of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of the Arts in Berlin. Previously she taught at the American University in Beirut. She is a founding member of the Ashot Johannissyan Research Institute in the Humanities in Yerevan and the Beirut Institute of Critical  Analysis  and  Research  (BICAR) in  Lebanon.  She  is  also  a  founding  editor  of  the  journal ARTMargins .  Her monograph The Political Aesthetics of the Armenian Avant-garde: The Journey of the 'Painterly Real' was published by Manchester University Press in 2017. She has been appointed to curate the 17 th Sharjah Biennial in 2027.

Eunsong  Kim is  an  Associate  Professor  in  the  Department  of  English  at Northeastern University. Her writings have appeared in: Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association , Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies , and in the book anthologies, Deep Fakes from the Algorithm's & Society series, Poetics of Social Engagement and Reading Modernism with Machines . Her poetry has  appeared  in  the Brooklyn  Magazine , The  Iowa  Review , Minnesota  Review amongst others. She is the author of gospel of regicide ( Noemi 2017), and with Sung Gi Kim she translated Kim Eon Hee's poetic text Have You Been Feeling Blue These Days? published in 2019. Her academic monograph, The Politics of Collecting: Race & the Aestheticization of Property (Duke 2024) materializes the histories of immaterialism by examining the rise of US museums, avant-garde forms, digitization, and neoliberal aesthetics, to consider how race and property become foundational to modern artistic institutions. She is the recipient of the Ford Foundation Fellowship, a grant from the Andy Warhol Art Writers Program, and Yale's Poynter Fellowship. In 2021 she co-founded offshoot, an arts space for transnational activist conversations.

Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen is Professor of Political Aesthetics at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen. He is the author of After the Great Refusal (Zero 2018; French translation 2019; Italian translation 2021); Trump's Counter-Revolution (Zero 2019; French translation 2019; Italian translation 2019; Greek translation 2020); Late Capitalist Fascism (Polity 2022; Spanish translation 2023; Italian translation 2024; Korean translation 2024) and The Refusalist International: A Theory of the New Protest Cycle (Polity 2025) as  well  as  a  number  of  books  in  Danish,  most  recently Dialog  med  de  døde (Antipyrine 2024). He has edited and co-edited a number of volumes, most recently Aesthetic Protest Cultures (Minor Compositions 2024).

Dominique  Routhier is an Assistant Professor at the Department  of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto in 2025. He is a co-founder of the Danish Society of Marxist Studies and a co-editor of the present issue of the NJA on 'Marxist Aesthetics.'  His  writing  has  appeared  in Historical  Materialism , LARB , New Left Review-Sidecar , e-flux , and other publications. His debut book, With and Against , was published by Verso in 2023. His essay, 'Bruegel in Watts,' is forthcoming in October .

Daniel  Spaulding is  Assistant  Professor  of  Modern  and  Contemporary  Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Previously he worked in the curatorial department of the Getty Research Institute and taught at California State University Long Beach and ArtCenter College of Design. His book Joseph Beuys and History will be published by Princeton University Press in 2026. Articles of his have appeared in Film-Philosophy , the Journal of Art Historiography , October , Res:  Anthropology  and  Aesthetics ,  and Zeitschrift  für  Kunstgeschichte .  He  is  a founding editor of Selva: A Journal of the History of Art .

Kerstin  Stakemeier is  a  writer  and  an  educator  at  the  Academy  of  Fine Arts  Nuremberg,  who  curated Illiberal  Arts/Lives (Haus  der  Kulturen  der Welt Berlin/Ludwigforum Aachen 2021/23) with Anselm Franke and wrote Universal Receptivity (2021) with Bill Dietz and Reproducing Autonomy (2016) with Marina Vishmidt. She wrote Entgrenzter Formalismus. Verfahren einer antimodernen Ästhetik (bbooks) alone in 2017. Currently Devin Fore and her are writing a joined essay and a series of introductions for their series of conversations on 'Fantasies of the People' for e-flux.

Josefine Wikström is a Senior Lecturer at the Academy of Music and Drama, University of Gothenburg. Until recently, she served as a Senior Lecturer in Aesthetics  at  Södertörn  University  in  Stockholm.  She  holds  her  PhD  from the  CRMEP at Kingston University  in  London.  Her  research  has  primarily focused  on  dance  and  performance  within  contemporary  art,  approached from  historical  materialist  and  art-philosophical  perspectives.  More  recently her  work  has  shifted  towards  broader  questions  of  the  social  form  of  art's autonomy, progressive cultural policy, and the aesthetic elements of pedagogy and education. She is the author of Practices of Relations in T ask-Dance and the Event-Score: A Critique of Performance (Routledge 2021); Objects of Feminism (2017,  University  of  the  Arts  Helsinki,  with  Maija  Timonen);  Kritik  av konstens frihet) (2022,121\_Press with Gustav Strandberg and Kim West); and Autonomins Sken: Om Kalliasbreven och frågan om estetikens politik hos Friedrich Schiller (Södertörn Publishing 2024, with Gustav Strandberg and Kim West). Wikström has published in journals such as Third Text, Radical Philosophy and Glänta. She is a dance critic for the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter and serves as one of the editors of the experimental philosophy- and art platform SITE Zones .