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Brian Whitener

Brian Whitener is an Assistant Professor at the University of South Alabama and the author of Crisis Cultures: The Rise of Finance in Mexico and Brazil (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019). Other projects include Face Down (Timeless Infinite Light, 2016), De gente común: Arte, política y rebeldía social, edited with Lorena Méndez and Fernando Fuentes (Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México, 2013) and the translation of Grupo de Arte Callejero’s Thoughts, Actions, Practices (Common Notions, 2019).

Features

Catastrophe Capitalism: An Interview with Peer Illner

By Brian Whitener and Peer IllnerSeptember 13, 2021
The response to state austerity must go beyond absorbing its outsourced labor
Essays & Reviews

The Tuition Limit and the Coming Crisis of Higher Education

By Dan Nemser and Brian WhitenerMarch 26, 2018
What happens to higher education when universities can no longer hike tuition?
Essays & Reviews

Cruel Pessimism

By Brian WhitenerMarch 30, 2017
A new book on debt reminds us that we have not left the time of crisis yet
Essays & Reviews

Seeing it Hole

By Brian WhitenerMarch 5, 2015
A new book tracks art's attempts to map capitalism
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