Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part I: Constructing History.- Chapter 2: "Who are you?": Memory, History, and Nostalgia on the Severed Floor.- Chapter 3: The Grim Barbarity of Capitalist Designs: Class Conflict, Corporate Dystopia, and the Sacred Gaze in Severance.- Chapter 4: Severed From Reality: The Irrationality of Rationality in Advanced Stage Capitalism.- Part II: Art and Architecture.- Chapter 5: Art as an Apparatus of the Invisible Sublime in Severance.- Chapter 6: Mapping the Subject through Severance's Corporate Architecture and Design.- Chapter 7: Resisting the Innie/Outie Dichotomy Through Mundane Encounters: In Defense of "Spaces of Transition".- Part III: Agency, Autonomy, and Alienation.- Chapter 8: An Investigation of Marxist Alienation in the Post-Modern Workplace in Apple TV's Severance.- Chapter 9: Brain Eugenics: How to Produce an Ideal Worker?.- Chapter 10: "Defiant Jazz": Corporate Rewards as Plantation-Style Oppression in Apple TV's Severance.- Chapter 11: The Waffle Party is Not What It Seems: Sexual, Reproductive, and Labor Exploitation in Severance.- Part IV Multifaceted Bodies and Minds.- Chapter 12: The Aesthetic Virtue of the Severance Procedure: Pledging Spectatorial Allegiance to Both Innies and Outies.- Chapter 13: "Actively Caring For Mankind Since 1866": Nineteenth-Century Medicine, Pain, and the Worker's Body in Season One of Severance.- Chapter 14: "The Mystery of Your Youthful Energy": Time, History, and the Representation of Queer Aging in Severance.- Chapter 15: Self-Communication in Severed Minds: Perspectives from Neuroscience, Psychology, and Philosophy.
