Leigh Claire La Berge es profesora en el Borough of Manhattan Community College de la Universidad de la Ciudad de Nueva York y autora de Scandals and Abstraction: Financial Fiction of the Long 1980s (2014), Reading Capitalist Realism (ed., 2014), Wages Against Artwork. Decommodified Labor and the Claims ofSocially Engaged Art (2019), Marx for Cats. A Radical Bestiary (2023) y Fake Work. How I Began to Suspect Capitalism is a Joke (2025).