Contents

  1. Notes on Contributors
  2. Introduction
    Heiko Feldner, Fabio Vighi and Slavoj Žižek
  3. PART I CRISES
    1. 1 The Matrix Cannot Be Reloaded: A Lacano-Marxian Perspective on the Current Economic Crisis
      Heiko Feldner and Fabio Vighi
    2. 2 Still Dancing: Drive as a Category of Political Economy
      Jodi Dean
    3. 3 “The Untranscendable Horizon of Our Time”: Capitalist Crisis and the Ends of Utopia
      Benjamin Noys
    4. 4 The Media Crisis in Capitalism: A Report on the Evil of Banality
      Paul Taylor
  4. PART II EVENTS
    1. 5 The Undoing of an Event
      Slavoj Žižek
    2. 6 Theory Without Conscience: Hegel's Absolute Refusal of Practice
      Todd McGowan
    3. 7 Affective Economies: Lacan's Four Discourses against the Historicism of Capitalist Abstraction
      Yahya M. Madra and Ceren Özselçuk
    4. 8 Ocean Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Steven Soderbergh's Contagion and the Stock Market Crash
      Marco Grosoli
  5. PART III SCENARIOS
    1. 9 Getting Its Act Together: What Chance Subtraction Under Conditions of Scarcity?
      Colin Cremin
    2. 10 Class Equality and Political Justice, or Differentiation and Mediated Non-Identity? Yes, Please!
      Darrow Schecter
    3. 11 An Avant-garde 'without Authority': Towards a Future Oekoumene—if there is a Future?
      jan jagodzinski
    4. 12 Boris Groys' Post-Capitalist Scenario
      Rex Butler
  6. Index