Carina Brand is a Senior Lecturer in Visual Art and Contextual Studies at De Montfort University, where she researches interdisciplinary Marxist and Feminist readings of art and culture. Her published work includes 'The Necropolitics of Reproduction: Black Feminism, Mothers and the Death Drive’ in Politics of the Many (2022) and ‘Feeding Like a Parasite: Extraction and Science Fiction in Capitalist Dystopias’ in Economic Science Fictions (2018).