Totality Inside Out
Rethinking Crisis and Conflict Under Capital

Kevin Floyd (Edited by), Jen Hedler Phillis (Edited by), Sarika Chandra (Edited by), Brent Ryan Bellamy (Contributions by), Sarah Brouillette (Contributions by), Sarika Chandra (Contributions by), Chris Chen (Contributions by), Joshua Clover (Contributions by), Tim Kreiner (Contributions by), Jen Hedler Phillis (Contributions by), Arthur Scarritt (Contributions by), Zoe Sutherland (Contributions by), Marina Vishmidt (Contributions by)

9780823298198

Hardback, published 18 January 2022

256 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.53 kg

However 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 account of capitalist totality that appears in this volume illuminates the material interlinkages between discrepant social phenomena, forms of oppression, and group histories, offering multiple entry points for readers who are interested in exploring how capitalism shapes integral relations within the social whole.
Contributors: Brent Ryan Bellamy, Sarah Brouillette, Sarika Chandra, Chris Chen,
Joshua Clover, Tim Kreiner, Arthur Scarritt, Zoe Sutherland, Marina Vishmidt

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 Morton's Hyperobjects and Klein's This Changes Everything
Brent Ryan Bellamy 211
Acknowledgments 237
List of Contributors 239
Index 243