by Marc James Léger | Jul 24, 2026 | Highlight 10, Marc James Léger
Review and critique of Nicolas Heimendinger’s L’État contre la norme: Institutions publiques et art d’avant-garde – France, États-Unis, Allemagne (Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2025). “Instead of Bürger’s theory of the avant-garde critique of the institution art, Nicolas...
by Marc James Léger | Mar 5, 2026 | Archive, Marc James Léger
The film is composed in the head of the spectator; it is not a work of art that exists on the screen by itself. – Alexander Kluge In the nineteenth century, the Paris Salon was an occasion at which art and politics were so highly sublimated that radicalism could come...
by Marc James Léger | Dec 2, 2025 | Archive
“In Defence of Marxism: Why Judy Cox and the Socialist Workers Party Are Wrong,” by Marc James Léger, is an original feature of Communis. An abridged 6000-word version will appear in International Socialism this December. “The North American and European left does not...
