Explores the slow but inevitable implosion of our civilization by considering the correlation between capital, work, and ideology.

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Prologue. Loss of Gravity in the Capitalist Galaxy
• Chapter 1. Labor, Value, and Other Capitalist Delusions
  • Dialectical Totalities
  • Brief Encounters
  • Setzung der Voraussetzungen
  • Hegel after Marx
  • The Fantasy of Surplus-Value
  • Hegel in and out of Political Economy
• Chapter 2. Implosion of the Work Society
  • Modernity’s Self-deployment
  • Self-caused and Self-realized Reason
  • Real Work and Labor-time
  • Calling the Bluff
  • André Gorz’s Critique of Work
  • Disaster Economics
  • The Difficulty of Letting Go
• Chapter 3. The Missing Cause
  • Chronic Constipation
  • A Worldless Discourse
  • The New Master
  • Colonization of the Productive Mind
  • Clouds of Impotence
  • Labor as Vanishing Presupposition
  • Marx’s Teleology
  • The Transcendental Schema of Capitalist Time
  • Beyond Exploitation
• Chapter 4. Dialectical Short Circuits
  • The Catastrophe of Liberation
  • Blindness of the Automatic Subject
  • Hegel: Being as Self-mediated Groundlessness
  • The Speculative Breakthrough
  • The Labor Decoy
  • Big Data and the Fanaticism of Breathing
• Chapter 5. The Financial Demon
  • Shackled by Nostalgia
  • Capitalist Bulimia
  • The Anatomy of Finance Is the Key to the Anatomy of the Real Economy
  • Genie out of the Capitalist Bottle
  • Neoliberal Perversions
  • Populist Symptoms
  • Viral Simulations
• Epilogue. Emergency Capitalism and the Exhaustion of a Form of Life
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index