By addressing the relationship of texts to our current global capitalist economy, we seek to further our understanding of the nature of cultural production in our current economic formation, how that formation is reproduced, and potential methods of resistance. To that end, some questions we seek to engage with are: In what ways do texts enact or engage with the global capitalist system of our current moment? How might texts offer resistance to the capitalist system and imagine otherwise? Conversely, how might texts operate, either directly or indirectly, in the reproduction of the capitalist mode of production? In what ways do texts function as commodities and how is that process of commodification reflected within the structure, content, advertisement, and dissemination of those texts? How does labor or commodification intersect with race, gender, sexuality, ableness, etc.? And does this intersection present new vantage points from which to consider how class and the capitalist mode of production function?

We especially welcome submissions that focus on the following topics:

- How cultural texts use feudal settings/pre-capitalist economic formations as a vehicle for commentary on the present capitalist moment
- Colonial hierarchy and extraction, in both its historical and contemporary manifestations
- Primitive accumulation and the ruling class
- False consciousness and myth-making in relation to class stratification
- Resistance to ideological state apparatuses and/or revolt against repressive state apparatuses
- The subsumption of the aristocracy into the bourgeoisie
- The reification or critique of gender, race, ableness, and other social identities in representations of class conflict
- Ruling class’s relationship to hegemonic social roles and norms of behavior.
- The construction and function of good taste and relationships between economic and cultural capital