(Originally published in The Wire) Adorno For Revolutionaries Ben Watson Unkant Press About halfway through this book, Ben Watson recounts a poignant and revealing anecdote. Watson has just delivered a paper at a conference in which he eviscerates an academic in front of her. Said academic walks out, but returns to denounce Watson for his “neanderthal Marxism.” Watson leaves, shocked, shaken but ultimately satisfied that he has disrupted the staid rituals of academia. “[It]’s the assu...
