Albena Azmanova is professor of political and social science at City StGeorge’s, University of London, specializing in critical social theory and political economy.

• Introduction: No Exit? The Futures of Progressive Politics Albena Azmanova, University of London, UKPart ONE: Critique, Criticism, Emancipation Chapter 1: Critique at an Impasse: The Neo-Feudal Condition and the Inclusionary Imagination Gal Hertz, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem, Israel and Naveh Frumer, Tel Aviv University, IsraelChapter 2: Emancipation and Critique - From Paradox to Pragmatism Iain MacKenzie, University of Kent, UK and Robert Porter, Ulster University, UKChapter 3: The Dialectic of Utopia: Dystopia and the Possibility of Utopia Gerard Delanty, University of Sussex, UKChapter 4: Paradoxes of Intellectual and Social Emancipation in “Of the Coming of John” and Barbie James Chamberlain, Mississippi State University, USA.Part TWO: From Deadlock to Breakthrough. Political Logistics and Cultural TechnologiesChapter 5: The Power and the Peril of Humanizing Projects Jeffrey Flynn, Fordham University, USAChapter 6: Empowerment as Surrender: How Women Lost the Battle for Emancipation as They Won Equality and InclusionAlbena Azmanova, University of London, UKChapter 7: From Emancipation to Autocracy – 1989’s Wrong Turns Evgenii Dainov, New Bulgarian University, BulgariaChapter 8: Freedom with a Helping of Blowback: The Paradox of Postcolonial Emancipation in Afghanistan Bojan Savic, University of Kent, UKChapter 9: The Snowden Paradox Raphaël Wolff, Inholland University, NetherlandsChapter 10: Digital Daddy Knows Best Nolen Gertz, University of Twente, NetherlandsChapter 11: High Performance Hell: Can Homo Academicus Survive the McManagerial University Peter Fleming, University of Technology Sydney, AustraliaPart Three: Emancipatory Political Economy?Chapter 12: Housing as Cooperation: The Emancipative Character of Collective PropertyRegina Kreide, Justus Liebig University, GermanyChapter 13: The Paradox of Emancipation of the Contract of Employment Nicola Countouris, University College London, UKChapter 14: The Paradoxes of ‘Freeing’ Work – from Precarization to Democratization Lisa Herzog, University of Groningen, NetherlandsChapter 15: The Strange World of Corporate Power: The Paradox of Corporate Arbitrage Anastasia Nesvetailova, University of London, UK and Ronen Palan, University of London, UKAbout the EditorAbout the Contributors