Colin Mooers is a professor of Politics and Cultural Theory at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. He served as Chair of the Department of Politics and Public Administration from 2001-2006 and as Director of the York-Ryerson Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture from 2008-2011. His areas of research and publishing include the political economy of capitalism and imperialism, citizenship, multiculturalism and cultural theory.

A bold effort to cognitively map the totalizing power of capitalist social relations in the contemporary international conjuncture

• Introduction 1. Birth of the Liberal Subject 2. Imperialism Today 3. States of Insecurity 4. States of Security 5. Contesting Empire: Against Commodity Citizenship

Colin Mooers is a professor of Politics and Cultural Theory at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. He served as Chair of the Department of Politics and Public Administration from 2001-2006 and as Director of the York-Ryerson Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture from 2008-2011. His areas of research and publishing include the political economy of capitalism and imperialism, citizenship, multiculturalism and cultural theory.

A bold effort to cognitively map the totalizing power of capitalist social relations in the contemporary international conjuncture

• Introduction 1. Birth of the Liberal Subject 2. Imperialism Today 3. States of Insecurity 4. States of Security 5. Contesting Empire: Against Commodity Citizenship