After theory

After Theory proposes the emergence of a viable post-marxist attitude to theory as a means of establishing a genuine historical and materialist criticism. Ranging across the most important areas of contemporary cultural practices in literature, film, photography, philosophy, music, dance, and sculpture, Docherty makes available a post-theoretical practice which will regenerate critique under the aegis of philosophical and austere postmarxism and whose central demand is for the historical and political efficacy of the intellectual work of criticism.