Totality Inside: Out Rethinking Crisis and Conflict under Capital

256 Pages·2022·2.22 MB·English

by  Kevin Floyd Jen Hedler Phillis, Sarika Chandra

Totality Inside Out

Totality Inside Out
Rethinking Crisis and
Conflict under Capital
Kevin Floyd, Jen Hedler Phillis,
and Sarika Chandra, Editors
Fordham University Press
new york 2022
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Contents
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 Ecolo gy with Totality: The Case of Morton’s Hyperobjects
and Klein’s This Changes Every thing
Brent Ryan Bellamy 211
Acknowl edgments 237
List of Contributors 239
Index 243

Totality Inside Out