Event overview
Book panel on ‘The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy – Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West’
Book panel on ‘The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy – Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West’ by A.J.A. Woods with Larne Abse Gogarty , Annie Kelly and Georgios Samaras
Tuesday, 2 June 2026
6-8pm
Goldsmiths, Room RHB 137
Free and open to all.
Panelists:
A.J.A. Woods is an intellectual historian who lives in Brighton, England. Their first book, The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West, was released by Verso Books in April 2026. Their previous writings on the Frankfurt School and the far right have been translated into four languages and published in Open Democracy, Marx & Philosophy Review of Books, Public Seminar, & Patterns of Prejudice. They are a member of the ecosocialist group Anti*Capitalist Resistance.
Larne Abse Gogarty is a writer and art historian from London. She is an associate professor at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. Larne is the author of two books: What We Do Is Secret: Contemporary Art and the Antinomies of Conspiracy (Sternberg Press, 2023) and Usable Pasts: Social Practice and State Formation in American Art (Brill, 2022) Currently, she is working on a new project about recent sculpture and commodity culture through the lens of salvage and scavenging. Larne has written catalogue essays for artists including Sam Gilliam, Alice Neel, and Gray Wielebinski and regularly writes criticism, mainly for Art Monthly. In 2026, she curated an exhibition entitled Conspiracies at the Warburg Institute, London. She is in the editorial group for Selva journal and Oxford Art Journal.
Annie Kelly is a journalist and researcher specialising in digital antifeminism, conspiracy theories and the far right. She completed her PhD about digital antifeminist networks at the University of East Anglia in 2020 and worked as a postdoctoral researcher on the AHRC-funded “Everything is Connected: Conspiracy Theories in the Age of the Internet” project at King’s College London. She is the UK correspondent for the QAA Podcast (formerly QAnon Anonymous).
Dr Georgios Samaras is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at King’s College London. His research focuses on European and American politics, with particular attention to how far-right ideas move from the margins into the mainstream and what that shift means for democratic governance. He is a Research Associate at the LSE Hellenic Observatory and at ENA Institute, an advisory board member at ETERON, and a member of the Reactionary Politics Research Network. He has written for The Guardian, POLITICO, The Independent, the New Statesman and Jacobin. His debut book, The Long Shadow of Golden Dawn, is forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature in 2026.
Contact: s.bromberg [@] gold.ac.uk
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 2 Jun 2026 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm |
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