Totality Inside Out

Strongly interdisciplinary, Totality Inside Out crosses the disciplines of history, philosophy, political theory, art, sociology, political economy, literature, and climate science, reconceptualizing the force of capitalism to account for the irreducible complexity of contemporary social formations. -- Cinzia Arruzza, The New School for Social Research

Kevin Floyd (Edited By) Kevin Floyd (19672019) was an Associate Professor of English at Kent State University and author of The Reification of Desire: Toward a Queer Marxism. Jen Hedler Phillis (Edited By) 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 (Edited By) 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.

Introduction: Totality Inside Out Kevin Floyd, with Brent Ryan Bellamy, Sarah Brouillette, Sarika Chandra, Chris Chen, and Jen Hedler Phillis | 1 1 Let the Dead Bury the Dead: Race, Gender, and Class Composition in the U.S. after 1965 Tim Kreiner | 29 2 (Un)making Value: Reading Social Reproduction through the Question of Totality Marina Vishmidt and Zoe Sutherland | 67 3 Tripartheid: How Global White Supremacy Triumphs through Neoliberalism Arthur Scarritt | 91 4 Remapping the Race/Class Problematic Sarika Chandra and Chris Chen | 135 5 On Artistic Autonomy as a Bourgeois Fetish Sarah Brouillette and Joshua Clover | 192 6 Ecology with Totality: The Case of Mortons Hyperobjects and Kleins This Changes Everything Brent Ryan Bellamy | 211 Acknowledgments | 237 List of Contributors | 239 Index | 243