October is an academic journal specializing in contemporary art, criticism, and theory, published by MIT Press.

[1] Its name is a reference to the Eisenstein film[1][2] that set the tone of intellectual, politically engaged writing that has been the hallmark of the journal.

[1] Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, one of the co-founders of the journal, withdrew after only a few issues, and by the spring of 1977, Douglas Crimp joined the editorial team.

In 1990, after Crimp left the journal, Krauss and Michelson were joined by Yve-Alain Bois, Hal Foster, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Denis Hollier, and John Rajchman.

[4] As well as in-depth articles and reviews of 20th century and contemporary art, the journal features critical interpretations of cinema and popular culture from a progressive viewpoint.