An Anti-Introduction: A Leap Into the Void
I. Anti-Theory: Dada, Situationism, Stirner, and Punk
II. An Outline of Things to Come: An Anti-introduction
Chapter One: The Crisis of Representation and the Collapse of the Liberal Order
I. The Mediated Reality, the Hyperreal, and the Crisis of Representation
II. The Collapse of the Post-war Spectacle
III. The Current Crisis of Representation
IV. Concluding Thoughts: Past, Present, Future and the End of History
Chapter Two: Industrialism is a Death Camp
I. Industrial Objects and the Materiality of Symbolic Anxiety
II. A Genealogical Analysis of the Gas Mask: From Plague Doctors to Anti-state Protestors
III. Industrialism as Suicidal Blackmail
Chapter Three: The Climate isn't Real
I. The Simulacra and Disaster Management: The Environment and Climate
II. The Politics of Models: Administrative Rationalism and the state regulation of Illusions:
III. Accepting the Nonidentity of Nature: Solaris, Cthuhlu, and the Masterless Object
IV. Anti-World Politics: Revolutionary Demonology and the Destruction of Enlightenment Order
Chapter Four: A Rising Tide Sinks All Art Galleries
I. Art, the Economy, the State:
II. Negation as an Artistic Medium: Activism as Performance Art
III. Mausoleums of our Extinct Culture
IV. Art as Resistance and Resistance as Art
Chapter Five: No Future, No Hope
I. What the End of the World Means...
II. Temporal Nihilism
III. "The Revolutionary is a Doomed Man": Towards Political Nihilism in the 21st Century
Chapter Six: Without Gallows Humor There is Only the Gallows
I. "Dancing on the Corpses Ashes": Russian Political Nihilism and Clearing the Rubble of Social Collapse
II. "The Goal of my Activities is the Destruction of all Living Things": The Revolutionary Nihilism of Kaneko Fumiko
III. "We All Die in a Yellow Submarine": Resentment and the Tragi-comedy of Dead Billionaires
IV. Conclusion: Cabin in the Woods and the Politics of Armed Joy
Chapter Seven: Towards A Nihilistic Politics of Attack
I. "The Revolutionary Handbrake": Walter Benjamin on Revolution and the Future
II. A Strategy of Attack: Against Accelerationism and Withdrawal
III. "The misplaced optimism of the doomed": Snowpiercer (2013) as Destituent Power and An Insurrectionary Handbreak
Conclusion: A Requiem for Our World
