Brings together leading scholars to offer competing perspectives on capitalism's past incarnations, present conditions, and possible futures. Some contributors reassess classic theorizations of capitalism in light of recent trends. Others examine Marx's writings, unemployment, hoarding, capitalist realism, and coyote (trickster) capitalism, among many other topics.

              Acknowledgments

Introduction

              Patrice Petro and Kennan Ferguson

Part IFinancialization, Creditocracy, Austerity

Chapter 1           Capital, after Capitalism

             Geoff Mann

Chapter 2           Restoration of the Rentier and the Turn to Lifelong Extraction

             Andrew Ross

Chapter 3           The Subprime Subject of Ideology

              Ivan Ascher

Chapter 4           Social Democracy and its Discontents: The Rise of Austerity

              Jeffrey Sommers

Part IIMedia/Art

Chapter 5           Austerity Media

              Patrice Petro

Chapter 6            Imagining Beyond Capital: Representation and Reality in Science Fiction Film

             Sherryl Vint

Chapter 7            Mistaken Places: Unemployment, Avant Gardism, and the Auto da Fé

             Marcus Bullock

Chapter 8            Liquid, Crystal, Vaporous: The Natural States of Capitalism

             Esther Leslie

Part III Belonging

Chapter 9            Cuban Filmmaking and the Post-Capitalist Transition

             Cristina Venegas

Chapter 10          “Neither Eastern nor Western”: Economic and Cultural Policies in Post-Revolutionary Iran

              Niki Akhavan

Chapter 11          Differentiating Citizenship

              A. Aneesh

Chapter 12          Gaming the System: Imperial Discomfort and the Emergence of Coyote Capitalism

              Bernard C. Perley

              Notes on Contributors

              Index