Brian Whitener is a writer. Crisis Cultures: The Rise of Finance in Mexico and Brazil is forthcoming in Spring 2019 with the University of Pittsburgh Press. Other projects include Face Down (Timeless Infinite Light, 2016), De gente común: Arte, política y rebeldía social, edited with Lorena Méndez and Fernando Fuentes (Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México, 2013). He participated in the the translations Genocide in the Neighborhood (ChainLinks, 2009), The Unreal, Silver-Plated Book (Departamento de Ficción, 2011), and The Empire of Neomemory (ChainLinks, 2013).