Jason Read is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine. He is the author of The Micro-Politics of Capital: Marx and the Prehistory of the Present and The Politics of Transindividuality.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part 1 Becoming Contingent: Philosophy, Violence, History

1 Primitive Accumulation: The Aleatory Foundation of Capitalism

2 The Present as Pre-History: Adorno and Balibar on the Transformation of Labor

3 The Althusser Effect: Philosophy, History, and Temporality

4 To Think the New in the Absence of its Conditions: Althusser and Negri on the Philosophy of Primitive Accumulation

Part 2 Putting the Capitalism Back into Capitalism and Schizophrenia: On Deleuze and Guattari

5 A Universal History of Contingency: Deleuze and Guattari on the History of Capitalism

6 The Age of Cynicism: Deleuze and Guattari on the Political Logic of Contemporary Capitalism

7 The Fetish is Always Actual, Revolution is Always Virtual: Marx and Deleuze

8 The Affective Economy: Producing and Consuming Affects in Deleuze and Guattari

9 Beyond Enslavement and Subjection: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari

Part 3 Between Marx and Spinoza: Philosophy and Ideology

10 The Potentia of Living Labour: Negri's Practice of Philosophy

11 The Order and Connection of Ideas: Theoretical Practice in Macherey's Turn to Spinoza

12 Desire is Man's Very Essence: Spinoza and Hegel as Philosophers of Transindividuality

13 The Order and Connection of Ideology is the Same as the Order and Connection of Exploitation: Or, Towards a Bestiary of the Capitalist Imagination

14 Conscienta Sive Ideologica: On the Spontaneity of Ideology

Part 4 Returns of Philosophical Anthropology: New Subjections/New Transformations

15 A Genealogy of Homo-Economicus: Foucault, Neoliberalism, and the Production of Subjectivity

16 Abstract Materialism: Alfred Sohn-Rethel and the Task of Materialist Philosophy

17 The Production of Subjectivity: From Transindividuality to the Commons

18 Man is a Werewolf to Man: Capital and the Limits of Political Anthropology

19 The 'Other Scene' of Political Anthropology: Between Transindividuality and Equaliberty

20 Anthropocene and Anthropogenesis: Philosophical Anthropology and the Ends of Man

Bibliography

Index