Introduction: swindlers and prophets -- Animadversions (technics after capital) -- On language as such and on the language of capital -- Labor under technical conditions -- Tekhne and artificial life -- The capital-machine -- Poetics after capital -- Paris spleen (the irony of revolutionary power) -- Le langage des fleurs et des choses muettes -- Irony and textual history -- Towards a political interpretation of ironic vertigo -- Paris spleen as irony-machine -- Bourgeois glass -- Clock time (on accumulation and the coming injustice) -- Of false appearances and presents -- Marx's textual history (primitive accumulation) -- Some people have a lot more than others (accumulation proper) -- Phony francs (ethics of the counterfeit) -- "Dangerous like poetry in prose" -- Insert into blankness (of poetry and cultural memory) -- Poetry at the crossroads of magic and positivism -- Forget the usual motives -- Insert into blankness -- Benjamin's cookie.