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Fabio Vighi is Professor of Italian and Critical Theory at Cardiff University. He is the coauthor (with Heiko Feldner) of Critical Theory and the Crisis of Contemporary Capitalism.

• AcknowledgmentsPrologue: Loss of Gravity in the Capitalist Galaxy1. Labor, Value, and Other Capitalist DelusionsDialectical TotalitiesBrief EncountersSetzung der VoraussetzungenHegel after MarxThe Fantasy of Surplus-ValueHegel in and out of Political Economy2. Implosion of the Work SocietyModernity's Self-deploymentSelf-caused and Self-realized ReasonReal Work and Labor-timeCalling the BluffAndré Gorz's Critique of WorkDisaster EconomicsThe Difficulty of Letting Go3. The Missing CauseChronic ConstipationA Worldless DiscourseThe New MasterColonization of the Productive MindClouds of ImpotenceLabor as Vanishing PresuppositionMarx's TeleologyThe Transcendental Schema of Capitalist TimeBeyond Exploitation4. Dialectical Short CircuitsThe Catastrophe of LiberationBlindness of the Automatic SubjectHegel: Being as Self-mediated GroundlessnessThe Speculative BreakthroughThe Labor DecoyBig Data and the Fanaticism of Breathing5. The Financial DemonShackled by NostalgiaCapitalist BulimiaThe Anatomy of Finance Is the Key to the Anatomy of the Real EconomyGenie out of the Capitalist BottleNeoliberal PerversionsPopulist SymptomsViral SimulationsEpilogue: Emergency Capitalism and the Exhaustion of a Form of LifeNotesWorks CitedIndex