Mathias Nilges is Associate Professor of English at St. Francis Xavier University, Canada. He has co-edited the books Literary Materialisms (2013), Marxism and the Critique of Value (2014), and The Contemporaneity of Modernism (2016).

1. Introduction: All We Have Is Now
2. Looking Backward: Nonsynchronism in the Long Now of Capitalism
2.1 The Long Now, A Crisis of Capitalist Temporality
2.2 The Temporal Demos Undone
2.3 The Dialectic of Aesthetic Form and Anticipatory Consciousness
2.4 Nonsynchronism and the Distribution of Time
2.5 Bloch Now: Tracing Hope in a Time of Crisis
2.6 The Untimeliness of Bloch: Utopian Thought and Critical Theory
3. The New Paternalism: Anti-Capitalism and Right-Wing Nostalgia
3.1 Why Anti-Postmodernism Now? Angry Young Men and the Desire for Fathers
3.2 Sentimentalism for Men, the Musty New Scent by Contemporary Capitalism
3.3 Right-Wing Agitation, Anti-Postmodernism, and Anti-Marxism

4. Mystifications or, Lumberjacks Without Forests
4.1 Identitarian Attacks on Identity Politics: A Right-Wing Veil for Capitalism's
Contradictions
4.2 Fascism: Capitalist Crisis Management
4.3 Romantic Anti-Capitalism
4.4 Getting Back in Touch with the Homeland
5. Completing the Thought of the Past: Literature as Utopian Method
5.1 Hope: Material Hunger for What's Missing
5.2 "To Speak of the Unspeakable": The Novel as Utopian Thought
5.3 Occupy Dreaming: Decolonizing the Future