Meanderings Through the Politics of Everyday Life

Robert Porter is Director of the Centre for Media Research, Ulster University, UK.

• Introduction / 1. Seminar on Critique / 2. The Conceptual Significance of Everyday Life / 3. Retail Politics / 4. Shifting Registers / 5. After the Aesthetic Seduction Comes the Philosophical Guilt / 6. The Old Problem of Recuperation / 7. The Logic of an Absent Present / 8. The Jargon of Indebtedness / 9. Welcome to the Pleasure Dome: Consumer Capitalism / 10. A Joke Explained…as a Jag; Or, Credo Quia Absurdum / 11. Entrepreneurial Rationality / 12. Digital Capitalism / 13. ‘You’re Fired!’ / 14. The Absurdity of Working to Rule / 15. Zombie Workers and the Rise and Rise of the Futurist-Sophists / 16. Political Theory, Events and Their Rippling Effects / 17. The Drama of Philosophical Imperialism / 18. Resisting the Philosopher’s Jargon / Conclusion

Vaneigem and Deleuze rewired for the 21st century. A marvellous argument for the continuing relevance of situationism and a sustained attack on the new absurdities this century has thrown at us so far.