Gary Tedman was most recently a professor at the faculty of design and art at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, and taught courses in the Theory of Social Change and Contemporary Art History, he is a graduate of the Royal College of Art (Cultural History), UK. He produced the hypertext version of Marx's 1844 Manuscript which revealed the unusual design layout and pagination, and has a number of essays published previously in Rethinking Marxism journal, including "Ideology, the State, and the Aesthetic Level of Practice" 1999.