T. J. Clark (Retort Collective): The Left (2011) [LEC, ENG]

Art historian T J Clark discusses ’The Left’ in this Iniva keywords lecture, a series evaluating keywords in art, culture and society. The Left in advanced capitalist countries has lived for the past two decades looking failure square in the face. The disappearance of a Left alternative from the space of politics, or even from the space of political imagination, remains the great fact of our time. Taking its title from Christopher Hill’s great study of radical writing after the English Civil War, this l