John Baldacchino is Associate Professor at Columbia University's Teachers College. He was a member of the faculty at Gray's School of Art in Scotland and Warwick University in England. He is the author of Post-Marxist Marxism: Questioning the Answer; Easels of Utopia: Art's Fact Returned; Avant-Nostalgia: An Excuse to Pause and Makings of the Sea: On Mediterranean Aesthetics (forthcoming).