Max Haiven is Canada Research Chair in the Radical Imagination at Lakehead University and author, most recently, of the book Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts (2020).

Max Haiven

A. T. Kingsmith&nbsp;is PhD candidate in the Department of Politics at York University and co-founder of EiQ Technologies, an emotion-AI start-up based out of the Design Fabrication Zone in the Creative Innovation Studio at Ryerson University. His forthcoming monograph, Anxiety as a Weapon: An Affective Approach to Political Economy, explores new modes for transforming the mental health landscape. For more, see&nbsp;<a href="http://atkingsmith.com">atkingsmith.com</a>.

A. T. Kingsmith

Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou is associate professor of Sociology at University College London, where he leads the Sociology and Social Theory Research Group. He is the author of&nbsp;Speculative Communities: Living with Uncertainty in a Financialized World&nbsp;(University of Chicago Press, 2021). His current book project, tentatively titled&nbsp;Winning in the Real Fake, is an intellectual history of conspiracy in finance capitalism.

Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou

Whither Harmony Square?: Conspiracy Games in Late Capitalism

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — Frank Herbert

A. T. Kingsmith&nbsp;is PhD candidate in the Department of Politics at York University and co-founder of EiQ Technologies, an emotion-AI start-up based out of the Design Fabrication Zone in the Creative Innovation Studio at Ryerson University. His forthcoming monograph, Anxiety as a Weapon: An Affective Approach to Political Economy, explores new modes for transforming the mental health landscape. For more, see&nbsp;<a href="http://atkingsmith.com">atkingsmith.com</a>.