Daniel Krier is Professor of Sociology at Iowa State University. He specializes in critical social theory, political economy, and comparative-historical sociology. Books include Speculative Management: Stock Market Power and Corporate Change (SUNY: 2005), NASCAR, Sturgis and the New Economy of Spectacle (with William Swart, Brill: 2016), Capitalism’s Future: Alienation, Emancipation and Critique (co-edited with Mark P. Worrell, Brill: 2016), The Social Ontology of Capitalism (co-edited with Mark P. Worrell, Palgrave Macmillan: 2017), and Capital in the Mirror: Critical Social Theory and the Aesthetic Dimension (co-edited with Mark P. Worrell, SUNY Press, forthcoming).