Cesare Casarino is professor of cultural studies and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota. He is author of Modernity at Sea: Melville, Marx, Conrad in Crisis (Minnesota, 2002), coauthor of In Praise of the Common: A Conversation on Philosophy and Politics (Minnesota, 2008), and coeditor of Marxism beyond Marxism.  Andrea Righi is assistant professor of Italian at Miami University. He is author of Biopolitics and Social Change in Italy: From Gramsci to Pasolini to Negri. Mark William Epstein has translated numerous books, including Lars-Henrik Olsen’s Tracks and Signs of the Animals and Birds of Britain and Europe and Davide Tarizzo’s Life (Minnesota, 2017).