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Jaime Acosta Gonzalez is a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Riverside, based in the Latino and Latin American Studies Research Center. His work focuses on the relationship between economics, politics and aesthetics, exploring the way art and literature make visible processes of racialization and accumulation central to contemporary capitalism. He has co-edited a special issue of Polygraph: An International Journal on Culture and Politics on the theme of “Neoliberalism and Social Reproduction.” His work has also appeared in Social Text, Novel: A Forum on Fiction and Jacobin. He is currently at work on two book projects: Art in the Interregnum: The Aesthetics of Transition in the Americas and Landscapes of Dispossession: Latinx Photography and the Administered World.
David Austin is the author of Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in 1960s Montreal, winner of the 2014 Casa de las Americas Prize (also translated into Spanish and into French); and Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution (2018) and is the editor of Moving Against the System: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness (2018), and You Don’t Play with Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James (2009). He currently teaches in the Humanities, Philosophy and Religion Department at John Abbott College in Montreal and the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada.
Beverley Best works on critical and Marxist theory. She teaches in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University (Montreal). She is the author of the forthcoming book, The Automatic Fetish: The Law of Value in Marx's Capital (Verso, 2024).
Michaeline A. Crichlow is chief editor of Cultural Dynamics and Professor of African and African American Studies and Sociology at Duke University and honorary Professor at SALISES, UWI, Mona Jamaica. She has authored Negotiating Freedom: Peasants and State in Development (2005) and with Patricia Northover, Globalization and the PostCreole Imagination: Notes on Fleeing the Plantation (2009) and co-edited several volumes on various topics the more recent being, Decoloniality in the Break of Global Blackness (circa 2024). She is currently completing a book manuscript, Governing the Present: Vistas, Violence and the politics of Place. She currently co-directs the project, (Climate Change, Decolonization & Global Blackness), part of the Entanglement Series at the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University.
Nicholas De Genova <www.nicholasdegenova.com> is Professor and Chair of the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Houston. He is the author of Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and “Illegality” in Mexican Chicago (2005), co-author of Latino Crossings: Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and the Politics of Race and Citizenship (2003), editor of Racial Transformations: Latinos and Asians Remaking the United States (2006), co-editor of The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement (2010), editor of The Borders of “Europe”: Autonomy of Migration, Tactics of Bordering (2017), co-editor of Roma Migrants in the European Union: Un/Free Mobility (2019), and co-editor of Europa/Crisis: Nuevas Palabras Claves en “la Crisis” en y de “Europa” (2021), co-editor of The Borders of America: Migration, Control, and Resistance across Latin America and the Caribbean (under review, 2023), and co-editor of Border Abolitionism: Migrant Struggles and the Law (under review, 2023).
Denise Ferreira da Silva is currently a Professor at the Institute for Social Justice at the University of British Columbia and Adjunct Professor at Monash University Architecture, Design, and Art and a faculty member at the European Graduate School. Her work artistic and academic work reflect and speculate on questions crucial to contemporary philosophy, political theory, black thought, feminist thought, and historical materialism. She is the author of Unpayable Debt (2022), Dívida Impagável (2019), and Toward a Global Idea of Race (2007). Her articles have been published in journals such as Social Text; Theory, Culture & Society; philoSOPHIA; Griffith Law Review; Theory & Event and The Black Scholar, among others. Her artworks include the films Serpent Rain (2016), 4 Waters: Deep Implicancy (2018) and Soot Breath/Corpus Infinitum (2020), with Arjuna Neuman and Poethical Readings and Sensing Salon, with Valentina Desideri.
Seb Franklin is Reader in Literature, Media, and Theory in the Department of English at King’s College London. He is the author of Control: Digitality as Cultural Logic (2015) and The Digitally Disposed: Racial Capitalism and the Informatics of Value (2021).
Esther Gabara is professor of Romance Studies and Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University. She was curator and editor of the traveling exhibition and accompanying catalog, Pop América, 1965–1975, and is the author of Errant Modernism: The Ethos of Photography in Mexico and Brazil (Duke University Press, 2008) and Non-Literary Fiction: Art of the Americas Under Neoliberalism (University of Chicago Press, 2022).
Michael Hardt teaches political theory in the Literature Program at Duke University. He is co-author of several books with Antonio Negri, including Empire. His most recent book is The Subversive Seventies. Together with Sandro Mezzadra he hosts The Social Movements Lab.
Nicholas Mirzoeff is Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at NYU. He is the author of many books, most recently White Sight: Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness (MIT Press). Full details and downloads can be found at https://www.nicholasmirzoeff.com/bio/JG.
Tâmis Parron is assistant professor at the History Institute of the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF, Brazil). Parron’s research focuses on the history of slavery, capitalism, and state building in the nineteenth century from the perspective of world system, conceptual history, and critical theory. He wrote The Politics of Slavery in Brazil (2011), co-authored Slavery and Politics: Brazil and Cuba (2016) and is the editor of the book series Narratives from Slavery (Hedra). His latest publications in English include, among others, “Transcending the Capitalism and Slavery Debate: Slavery and World Geographies of Accumulation,” Theory and Society, 2022; “The Great Transformation: World Capitalism and the Crisis of Slavery,” in Dale Tomich and Paul Lovejoy, eds., The Atlantic and Africa: The Second Slavery and Beyond (NY, 2021), and “The British Empire and the Suppression of the Slave Trade to Brazil: A Global History Analysis,” in Journal of World History (2018).