This issue of ARTMargins marks a return of the journal’s essay component, leading with an extensive exploration of socially engaged art by John Roberts, who questions what art as a form of social and aesthetic praxis can or cannot achieve beyond the remit of art itself. Roberts approaches socially engaged art as a form of radical aisthesis that draws, among other things, on the aesthetics of the negative that characterize parts of the historical avant-garde. ARTMargins, Volume 14, Issue 1, ...