Exordium: Extinction and Everyday Infrapolitics | 1
Introduction | 9
Passage I. Contemporary Turmoil: Posthegemonic Epochality, or Why Bother with the Infrapolitical? | 33
Prometheus Kicks the Bucket, 35 • Katechon, Post-katechon,
Decontainment, 54 • From Hegemony to Posthegemony, 74 •
Why Bother with the Infrapolitical?, 97
Passage II. Narco- Accumulation: Of Contemporary Force and Facticity | 107
Toward Narco- Accumulation, 109 • Toward Facticity, 117 • Facticity,
or the Question of the Right Name for War, 129 • Decontainment
and Stasis, 135 • Theater of Conflict I: “Here There Is No Choosing,” 144 •
Theater of Conflict II: 2666, or the Novel of Force, 148 •
Toward the Void, 162 • The Migrant’s Hand, or the Infrapolitical Turn to Existence, 167
Notes | 191
Works Cited | 231
Index | 243