Walter Benn Michaels is Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. An original and uncompromising polemicist, he has authored numerous books—all linked below—and writes about literature, photography, aesthetics, race, and class politics.
Books:
No Politics But Class Politics, co-authored with Adolph Reed, Jr. - forthcoming summer 2022, ERIS Press
The Beauty of a Social Problem: Photography, Autonomy, Economy - 2015, University of Chicago Press
The Trouble With Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality - 2007, Macmillan
The Shape of the Signifier: 1967 to the End of History - 2004, Princeton University Press
Our America: Nativism, Modernism, Pluralism - 1995, Duke University Press
Articles/lectures:
“The Political Economy of Anti-Racism” - 11 February 2018, Nonsite.org
Presentation: The Trouble with Diversity - May 2019, Lone Star College-Kingwood
Other writing can be found at:
Nonsite.org author page: Walter Benn Michaels
Music: “Zero” from Trills EP, by Vincent Mazza
Audio engineering: Derek Simpson
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