A crucial intervention in political theory, Marxism, and critique that brings together decolonial praxis with the deconstructive indeterminacy of the value-form in original and generative ways. Andrés Fabián Henao Castro offers a committed, radical perspective on the too-frequently dematerialized category of intellectual labor. Elegant, clear language to its reader—a comrade in book-form sure to accompany a wide range of thinkers in struggle.

Jordy Rosenberg, professor of English, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Henao Castro offers a solution to the problem of expertise that tends to separate rather than include the left-wing intellectual in larger social and political forms of struggle. This book is a model for how to think about radical politics such that thought and action become intertwined and mutually reinventing.

James Martel, professor of political science, San Francisco State University

This book requires our most urgent attention and in its revolutionary untimeliness finds itself arriving right on time to catalyze and contextualize what it means to ethically participate in disruptive intellectual labor.

Michael Sawyer, associate professor of African American Literature and English, University of Pittsburgh

In a time when revolutionary militancy tends to be criminalized and when resistance to domination is reduced to arbitrary and unjustified violence, this book reminds us that the time of the political understood as the time of life and liberation entirely depends on subverting and decolonizing the criteria that decide on the legibility of political action.

Maria del Rosario Acosta, professor of Hispanic Studies, University of California Riverside

For far too long we have sought out philosopher-kings when in fact we needed something different. Tossed about by the choppy seas of the present with all their perils and possibilities, what we need is not a captain but a compass. Let this book be a contribution to getting our collective bearings.

Geo Maher, visiting associate professor of political science, Vassar College