Jasper Bernes is the author of We Are Nothing and So Can You (2015), a previous collection of poems Starsdown (2007), and is currently completing a book of literary history, The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization, about the role of poetry in the postindustrial restructuring of labor. Excerpts from We Are Nothing and So Can You have appeared in Lana Turner, The American Reader, the Capilano Review, Hi Zero, Prelude, and elsewhere. His writing on contemporary politics and political economy can be found in venues such as The New Inquiry, LARB, Endnotes, and Viewpoint. He lives in Berkeley with his family and teaches in the English Department at Stanford University.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Response to "What Was Neoliberalism?": A Debate Between Joshua Clover / Jasper Bernes and Michael W. Clune
Letters to the editor...
History and the Sphinx: Of Riots and Uprisings
1. Riots are the Sphinx of the left. Every soi disant radical intellectual feels compelled, it seems, to answer the riddle ...
Percentages, Politics, and the Police
Though numbers are, in many regards, decisive, they are not everything....
