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Book SynopsisHowever divergent their analyses may be in other ways, some prominent anti-capitalist critics have remained critical of contemporary debates over reparative justice for groups historically oppressed and marginalized on the basis of race, gender, sexual identity, sexual preference, and/or ability, arguing that the most these struggles can hope to produce is a more diversity-friendly capital. Meanwhile, scholars of gender and sexuality as well as race and ethnic studies maintain that, by elevating the socioeconomic above other logics of domination, anti-capitalist thought fails to acknowledge specific forms and experiences of subjugation. The thinkers and activists who appear in Totality Inside Out reject this divisive logic altogether. Instead, they aim for a more expansive analysis of our contemporary moment to uncover connected sites of political struggle over racial and economic justice, materialist feminist and queer critique, climate change, and aesthetic value. The re-imagined a
Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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 Morton’s Hyperobjects and Klein’s This Changes Everything
Brent Ryan Bellamy | 211
Acknowledgments | 237
List of Contributors | 239
Index | 243
