Totality Inside Out : Rethinking Crisis and Conflict Under Capital

Kevin Floyd (1967–2019) was an Associate Professor of English at Kent State University and author of The Reification of Desire: Toward a Queer Marxism.

Jen Hedler Phillis lives in Chicago. Her primary academic area of interest revolves around the intersection of poetics and politics; her primary political area of interest revolves around dismantling capitalism. Her first book, Poems of the American Empire, was published by the University of Iowa Press in 2019.

Sarika Chandra is an Associate Professor of English at Wayne State University. She researches and teaches in the areas of globalization studies, American Studies, and Race and Ethnic Studies. Theorizing the U.S. in a transnational frame, her work focuses on race, ethnicity, im/migration, and the environment. Chandra is the author of Dislocalism: The Crisis of Globalization and the Remobilizing of Americanism (Ohio State University Press, 2011). Her publications have appeared in various volumes and journals including American Quarterly, Cultural Critique, and Modern Language Notes. With Chris Chen, she is finishing a book on capitalism and contemporary theories of racial group formation.

Brent Ryan Bellamy teaches courses on critical worldbuilding, graphic fiction, American petrocultures, and science fiction as a contract instructor at Trent University. He has recently published articles in the Canadian Review of American Studies, Polygraph, Resilience, and several edited collections. He has edited journal special issues on energy humanities, resource aesthetics, and science fiction and the climate crisis and two books, Materialism and the Critique of Energy (MCM’, 2018) and An Ecotopian Lexicon (University of Minnesota Press, 2019). His book Remainders of the American Century: Post-Apocalyptic Novels in the Age of US Decline is available from Wesleyan University Press (2021).

Sarah Brouillette is a Professor in the Department of English at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She is the author of three books: Postcolonial Writers in the Global Literary Marketplace (Palgrave, 2007); Literature and the Creative Economy (Stanford, 2014); and UNESCO and the Fate of the Literary (Stanford, 2019).