About me
Jasper Bernes lives in Oakland and teaches in the English Department at the University of California, Berkeley. A regular contributor to the Field Notes section of the Brooklyn Rail, he is the author of The Future of Revolution: Communist Prospects from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising (Verso, 2025) and The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization (Stanford Univ. Press, 2019), along with two books of poetry, We Are Nothing and So Can You (Commune Editions, 2015) and Starsdown (In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni, 2007).
