Tobi Haslett

Tobi Haslett received a PhD in English from Yale University in 2024. His dissertation examined how a few writers in the mid-1960s, prompted by the outbreak of black rebellion and the stasis and supersession of the US struggle for civil rights, attempted to reformulate the very concept of totality. Many of them were lapsed Marxists; others saw themselves as supplying Marxism with a vital update or correction. 

He has also written about art, film, literature, and politics for n+1, Harper’s, and other publications. He penned the introductions to Horse Crazy (1989), a novel by Gary Indiana that was reissued in 2018 by Seven Stories Press, and to Thulani Davis’s Nothing but the Music (2020), a collection of poems published by Blank Forms Editions. Haslett contributed essays to several exhibition catalogues and was the screenwriter for the documentary Riotsville, USA (2022), directed by Sierra Pettengill.

Tobi@DAI: 

November 2025: Confluence#2 at PAF St. Erme, France ~ Kitchen Responding.

September 2025: Palestine Teach-Out #10: Collective Action in the Arts ~Strike, Boycott and Solidarity in Times of Genocide