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BIOGRAPHY:
MALCOLM MILES BA (Hons), PhD
Malcolm Miles is Professor of Cultural Theory in the Faculty of
Arts at the University of Plymouth, UK. He co-chairs the Culture-Theory-Space
research group (located in the School of Architecture); supervises
doctoral research between critical theory and contemporary culture
and urbanism; contributes to doctoral workshops on research methods
in the arts; and carries out research for publication.
His main research interest is in the development of critical theories
of culture and society since the mid twentieth century, in relation
to contemporary art and urban change. Within this are questions
around the extent to which the utopian content of modernism can
be salvaged; the need to develop critical theory in a period of
global cultures; and the cross-currents of a post-socialist Eastern
Europe. He retains a long-term interest in questions of pictorial
space and the insights on art offered by psychoanalytic as well
as political approaches.
Among recent publications is Urban
Utopias: the built and social architectures of alternative settlements,
London, Routledge, 2008.
Other books include: Cities & Cultures, London, Routledge,
2007; and Urban Avant-Gardes: art, architecture and change,
London, Routledge, 2004. He has contributed to academic journals
including Third Text, Cultural Geographies, Urban Studies, The Journal
of Social Research, and Zeitschrift für kritische Theorie.
Malcolm is currently working on a book on Herbert Marcuse’s
aesthetic theories from the 1930s to the 1970s, to be published
by Pluto Press in 2011.
He lives in Totnes, Devon, and supports the Green Party.
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