After Capitalism

Kennan Ferguson is an associate professor of political theory at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he also directs the Center for 21st Century Studies. He is the author or coeditor of several books including All in the Family: On Community and Incommensurability.Patrice Petro is a professor of English and film studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she also serves as Vice Provost and Director of the Center for International Education. She is the author, editor, or coeditor of eleven books, including Idols of Modernity: Movie Stars of the 1920s and Rethinking Global Security: Media, Popular Culture, and the ‘War on Terror’ (both by Rutgers University Press).

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I Financialization, Creditocracy, AusterityChapter 1 Capital, after CapitalismChapter 2 Restoration of the Rentier and the Turn to Lifelong ExtractionChapter 3 The Subprime Subject of IdeologyChapter 4 Social Democracy and its Discontents: The Rise of AusterityPart II Media/ArtChapter 5 Austerity MediaChapter 6 Imagining Beyond Capital: Representation and Reality in Science Fiction FilmChapter 7 Mistaken Places: Unemployment, Avant Gardism, and the Auto da FÉChapter 8 Liquid, Crystal, Vaporous: The Natural States of CapitalismPart III BelongingChapter 9 Cuban Filmmaking and the Post-Capitalist TransitionChapter 10 “Neither Eastern nor Western”: Economic and Cultural Policies in Post-Revolutionary IranChapter 11 Differentiating CitizenshipChapter 12 Gaming the System: Imperial Discomfort and the Emergence of Coyote CapitalismNotes on ContributorsIndex

"After Capitalism powerfully extends the horizon of capitalism's conceptualization, and is essential reading for anyone interested in critiques of globalization, culture and economics or the cultural politics of recession." - Lisa Parks (coeditor of Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures) "Imagination and passion fuel these essays, which confront the worst of capitalism’s violence and the terrors of capitalism’s aftermath. A timely and well-edited collection, After Capitalism begins a crucial conversation among political economics, representation and imaging, and geopolitical mapping." - Amy Villarejo (Cornell University) "Imagination and passion fuel these essays, which confront the worst of capitalism’s violence and the terrors of capitalism’s aftermath. A timely and well-edited collection, After Capitalism begins a crucial conversation among political economics, representation and imaging, and geopolitical mapping." - Amy Villarejo (Cornell University) "After Capitalism powerfully extends the horizon of capitalism's conceptualization, and is essential reading for anyone interested in critiques of globalization, culture and economics or the cultural politics of recession." - Lisa Parks (coeditor of Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures)