In the winter of 1968–69 the buildings of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt – the symbolically resonant home of what had come to be known as the Frankfurt School – were occupied by students. The police were called in, and Theodor W. Adorno, one of the great radical theorists of the twentieth century, pressed charges against a young man whose doctoral work he wa ... (read more)
John Frow
John Frow is an Australian writer of literary theory and cultural studies, whose books include Marxism and Literary History (1986), Time and Commodity Culture (1997) and Genre (2006). He is currently a Professorial Fellow at the University of Sydney.