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Alberto Toscano
Alberto Toscano is professor of critical theory in the Department of Sociology; co-director of the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London; and term research associate professor at the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. He is the author of Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea (Verso, 2017, 2nd ed.), Cartographies of the Absolute (with Jeff Kinkle; Zero Books, 2015), La abstracción real. Filosofia, estética y capital (Palinodia, 2021), Terms of Disorder: Keywords for an Interregnum (Seagull, 2023), and Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis (Verso, 2023). He is the co-editor of the three-volume SAGE Handbook of Marxism (with Sara Farris, Bev Skeggs and Svenja Bromberg; Sage, 2022), Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s Abolition Geography: Essays towards Liberation (with Brenna Bhandar; Verso, 2022) and Georges Bataille’s Critical Essays (with Benjamin Noys, Seagull, 2023). Since 2004 he has been a member of the editorial board of the journal Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory and is the series editor of Seagull Essays and the Italian List for Seagull Books.
Contact: School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Dr W K9671, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada.