Ciarán Finlayson is a writer and editor based in Brooklyn. He is the author of Perpetual Slavery (Floating Opera, 2023) and his writing can be found in publications including 4Columns, Artforum, Granta, and Kunst und Politik. Finlayson has taught at Columbia University, the Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program (New York), the Night School of the New York City Democratic Socialists of America, and the Sandberg Institute (Amsterdam).