Crimes of the future : theory and its global reproduction

Content: Cover page
 Halftitle page
 Title page
 Copyright page
 Contents
 About the Author
 Acknowledgments
 Introduction
 Hunger games
 History displays its Scotland Yard badge
 Crime and the "aura"
 Crime and the abortion of the future
 A cat is being cut
 1 How Global Should Theory Be?
 Global cultural capital
 Intranslations
 Compensation
 Theory in an expanded field
 Decompensation
 Untimely theories of the future
 2 Theory and its Lines of Flight Future, ancient, fugitive
 Lines of flight
 Beings of flight
 Fears of flying
 Laughing at theory
 3 Investigations of a Kantian Dog. Investigations of a dogBobby, the Last Kantian dog
 From Bobby to Albertine
 Robert Antelme and the "human species"
 4 Divided Truths on Lies Derrida with Hannah Arendt
 5 Derrida's Anterior Futures
 The economy of the future
 Pascal's wager
 Wagering the Wagnis: Pascal, Rilke, Heidegger
 Mallarmé's die
 Toward a ghostlier futurity
 6 A Future without Death?
 7 The No Future of an Illusion
 8 The Styles of Theory Crimes against fecundity
 Le style, c'est l'homme même
 Le style c'est la femme même
 Le style, c'est le crime même
 9 Universalism and its LimitsThe reasons of the absurd. Kafk a between Greenberg and LeavisCamus, Kafk a, and the aphoristic tradition
 From Camus's Kafk a to Derrida's "Stranger"
 Badiou versus Adorno on the value of Beckett
 10 After the "Altermodern"
 The concept of modernism and its theory
 Bourriaud and the "Altermodern"
 Stan Douglas's "Vidéo," or how to bring Kafk a and Beckett together
 11 Conclusion The long-lasting joke of the future (Marx and Kafka, Althusser and Antigone)
 The laughter of the capitalist
 Antigone's laughter
 Kafka and the jokes of the future
 Althusser's joke: Is the future lasting forever, or just for a long time?