How I Sleep at Night

PART 1: SOME THOUGHTS ON THE ORIGINS OF OUR CURRENT PREDICAMENT

1: Manners, Deference, and Private Property: Or, Elements for a General Theory of Hierarchy

2: The Very Idea of Consumption: Desire, Phantasms, and the Aesthetics of Destruction from Medieval Times to the Present.

3: Turning Modes of Production Inside-Out: Or, Why Capitalism Is a Transformation of Slavery (short version)

4: Fetishism as Social Creativity: Or, Fetishes Are Gods in the Process of Construction

PART II: PROVISIONAL AUTONOMOUS ZONE: DILEMMAS OF AUTHORITY IN RURAL MADAGASCAR

5: Provisional Autonomous Zone: Or, The Ghost-State in Madagascar

6: Dancing with Corpses Reconsidered: An Interpretation of Famadihana (in Arivonimamo, Madagascar)

7: Love Magic and Political Morality in Central Madagascar, 1875–1990

8: Oppression

PART III: DIRECT ACTION, DIRECT DEMOCRACY, AND SOCIAL THEORY

9: The Twilight of Vanguardism

10: Social Theory as Science and Utopia: Or, Does the Prospect of a General Sociological Theory Still Mean Anything in an Age of Globalization?

11: There Never Was a West: Or, Democracy Emerges From the Spaces in Between

12: On the Phenomenology of Giant Puppets: Broken Windows, Imaginary Jars of Urine, and the Cosmological Role of the Police in American Culture

I kid, of course. These are the essays contained in Possibilities, the new book by the brilliant David Graeber from those wonderful people at AK Press.

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