J.G. Ballard's Politics : Late Capitalism, Power, and the Pataphysics of Resistance.

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Acknowledgements ; Contents ; Abbreviations ; 1 Introduction: Catastrophic Strategies ; 2 Celebration of Wounds: Excess, the Body, and Symbolic Exchange in Crash ; 2.1 Dystopian Vistas ; 2.2 Roads of Excess ; 2.3 Anarchic Bodies, or, Breughel and Bosch on the Freeway.

2.4 Symbolic Violence 3 Becoming-Grass: De- and Reterritorialization in Concrete Island ; 3.1 Deterritorialization ; 3.2 Reterritorialization ; 4 Escaping the Subject: The Ballardian Theme of Abdication ; 4.1 Siding with the Object ; 4.2 Inverted Crusoes ; 4.3 Embrace the Fugues!

5 The Psychopath as Saint: Cocaine Nights, Super-Cannes and the Politics of Transgression after the End of History 5.1 The Violence of the Global and the Boredom of Paradise ; 5.2 The Spectral Reign of Global Capital.

6 In Pursuit of the 21st Century: The Revolutionary Imagination and the Spectacle of Terrorism in Millennium People 6.1 Escaping the Soft-Regime Prison ; 6.2 Subversion, No End of Subversion -- Only Not for Us ; 6.3 The Will to Spectacle ; 7 Conclusion: New Weapons ; Works Cited ; Index.

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