Malcolm Miles is Professor of Cultural Theory in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Plymouth, United Kingdom. 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.
www.malcolmmiles.org.uk
Keywords: cultural theory, art education, urbanism, contemporary art, global space, politics
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