MARY CONWAY revels in a powerful reminder that human lives are not defined by physical perfection
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Utopias: more than just myth
Limiting utopias to just ‘speculative myths’ denies their actual impact on historic living experience, believes HELEN MERCER
LIVING EXPERIENCE: Modernist housing estate on Grunwaldzki Square in Wroclaw, 1967-1975 by the multi-award winning architect Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak
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PAUL DONOVAN recommends the fine performances in this account of the pre-war meeting between the US president and the British king
TECLYN AROD relishes an intimate celebration of jazz improvisation that mixes local and national musicians
The missing sister, the vengeful WAG, cruise ship claustrophobia, and reanimated Avengers
Three great releases of lost concerts by Duke Ellington Orchestra, John Taylor & Stan Sulzman, and Joe Henderson
To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
Utopia in the age of survival
by SD Chrostowska
Stanford University Press, £17.99
THIS short book is a contribution to academic debates within the tradition of thought known as critical social theory — the “Frankfurt School” — which has included writers such as Herbert Marcuse and Jurgen Habermas.
The general outlook was one critical of capitalism but more in terms of class relations as a system of domination, rather than primarily of exploitation.
In the post-war years the “school” became characterised by vehement opposition to “actually existing socialism” in the Soviet Union.
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