Meanderings Through the Politics of Everyday Life

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Contents Acknowledgements Introduction. Or, Some Directions for You, My Ideal Reader . . . Part 1. The Jaded Lecturer and a Seminar on Critique Part 2. The Conceptual Significance of Everyday Life Part 3. Retail Politics Part 4. Shifting Registers Part 5. After the Aesthetic Seduction Comes the Philosophical Guilt Part 6. The Old Problem of Recuperation Part 7. Wile E. Coyote and the Logic of an Absent Present Part 8. The Jargon of Indebtedness Part 9. Welcome to the Pleasure Dome Part 10. A Joke Explained . . . as a Jag; Or, Credo Quia Absurdum Part 11. The Key Thing Is that We’re at the Beginning of Something New Part 12. We’re Told that Businesses Have Souls, Which Is Surely the Most Terrifying News in the World Part 13. ‘You’re Fired!’ ‘OK, Go Fuck Yourself!’ Part 14. The Absurdity of Working to Rule Part 15. Zombie Workers and the Rise and Rise of the Futurist-Sophists Part 16. Orgasmic Political Theory, Events, and Their Rippling Effects Part 17. The Drama of Philosophical Imperialism Part 18. Resisting the Philosopher’s Jargon Conclusion. Or, Eighteen Steps to a New You Notes Bibliography Index