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Alberto Toscano is the author of Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis (Verso, 2023) and Terms of Disorder: Keywords for an Interregnum (Seagull, 2023). He is a columnist for In These Times. / Brenna Bhandar is author of Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land and Racial Regimes of Ownership (DUP, 2018) and co-editor (with Rafeef Ziadah) of Revolutionary Feminisms: Conversations on Collective Action and Radical Thought (Verso, 2020).
  • Slumlord Empire

    Slumlord Empire

    In this essay, Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bhandar explore how the ideology of real estate has come to find direct geopolitical expression in Trump’s crass drive to acquire territory as “property”—a turn back towards unmediated accumulation exemplified by the administration’s egregious “Gaza development plan.”