The Age of Disruption : Technology and Madness in Computational Capitalism (Paperback)

Part One: The Epokh? of My Life 1

1 Disruption: A ‘New Form of Barbarism’ 3

2 The Absence of Epoch 10

3 Radicalization and Submission 19

4 Administration of Savagery, Disruption and Barbarism 35

5 Outside the Law: Saint-Michel and the Dragon 46

Part Two: Madness, Anthropocene, Disruption 69

6 Who am I? Hauntings, Spirits, Delusions 71

7 Dreams and Nightmares in the Anthropocene 86

8 Morality and Disinhibition in Modern Times 108

9 Ordinary Madness, Extraordinary Madnesses 132

10 The Dream of Michel Foucault 148 Part Three: Demoralization 165

11 Generation Strauss-Kahn 167

12 Thirty-Eight Years Later 193

13 Death Drive, Moral Philosophy and Denial 220

14 Nonconformism, ‘Uncoolness’ and Libido Sciendi at the University 237

15 The Wounds of Truth: Panic, Cowardice, Courage 258

Conclusion: Let’s Make a Dream 286

A Conversation about Christianity 313

Notes 330

Index 391