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. "T he misplaced optimism of the doomed": Snowpiercer (2013) as Destituent Power and An Insurrectionary Handbreak Conclusion: A Requiem for Our World.