So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?

He was known for surveying the work of Lefebvre Sartre and Foucault. He applied the ideas of these and other French theorists (including Baudrillard Althusser Deleuze and Derrida) to digital new media of the late Twentieth and early Twenty-first century (including television databases hypertext and the Internet). from New York University in 1968 and his research interests included European Intellectual and Cultural History Existentialism Marxism Critical Theory and Media Studies.