Socialist Aesthetics, the ‘Classical’ and Communism

Keti Chukhrov is a leading philosopher and art theorist whose influential essays include ‘Anagogia in Cosmism and Communism’ (2018), ‘Between Class Antagonism and Violence’ (2016), ‘On the False Democracy of Contemporary Art’ (2014), ‘Sexuality in a Non-Libidinal Economy’ (2014), freely accessed at eflux journal. She is DSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor at the Dept of Сultural Studies, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, and a Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow at Wolverhampton University. Her research focuses on art-systems, the philosophy of performativity, and the impact of socialist political economy on the epistemes of historical socialism. Her books include To Be—To Perform: ‘Theatre’ in Philosophic Critique of Art (European Un-ty, 2011), Pound & £ (Logos, 1999) and Merely Humans (2010).  Her forthcoming book examines the communist epistemologies of Soviet Marxist philosophy in the 1960s and 1970s.