ABSTRACT
In the ubiquitous swamp of Neoliberal capitalism, a time of pestilence and plagues, of zombies, vampires and other monsters of the market, of fuzziness and uncertainty, of religious fundamentalisms and solitary atheism, of violence and repressive tolerance, of Empire and Multitude, of globalization and right-wing populism, of culture wars, and abject poverty, failed and failing states, of nuclear war anxieties, of despots, oligarchs and fading democracies, of simulacra and spectacles, of favelas and World Cup soccer, Arab Springs and the Banana Republics of consumer society – and of academic controversies about what is or is not modernity, post-modernity, the nature of political economy, the nature of human nature, Late Capitalism, the aesthetic, the ethic, the truth, the dialectic, genes, memes, real, virtual, self, the Other, Dasein, and so on – we know with certainty only that the survival of our species is at risk. It is even probable that we will destroy, along with ourselves, most of, if not the entire, biosphere.
