In this closing lecture within the series 'The State of Things' art historian T.J. Clark analises how the disappearance of a Left alternative from the space of politics, or even from the space of political imagination, remains the great fact of our time. Taking its title from Christopher Hill's great study of radical writing after the English Civil War, this lecture is concerned, as part of that work, with the Left's sense of progress, asking what it could mean to a Left politics for it no longer to consider itself 'on the side of history'.
Editor: Antonio Cataldo
