Richard Purcell teaches at Carnegie Mellon University and specializes in post-’45 literature, film, and media at the intersection of Black studies and post-Marxist thought. He has an essay forthcoming on Black radical theorization of the audience commodity, and his current book project uses graffiti to explore radical experimentations within visual culture during the Long Seventies.
Richard Purcell
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