Cover -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- In Search of Post-Crisis Perspectives -- Theorizing the crisis: the post-workerist perspective -- A new language: the common and its powers -- Book structure -- References -- Part I. The Crisis and Beyond -- 1. Money and Financial Capital: The Return of the Substance of Value -- The non-measurability of value -- The crisis: capital and the imposition of measure -- Real and financial economy? The accumulation of capital -- Toward a subjective measurement of value -- References -- 2. Debt Economy and the Indebted Man -- The knowledge factory is a financial enterprise -- Creditors and debtors -- The student loan bubble -- Control, subjectivity, time -- The credit relation inscribed into an electronic chip -- Debt as a capture scheme -- Money and debt -- Debt theory in heterodox economics -- The genealogy of morals and debt -- References -- 3. Cognitive Biocapitalism, the Precarity Trap, and Basic Income: Post-Crisis Perspectives -- Introduction -- Characteristics of cognitive biocapitalism -- The socioeconomic governance of cognitive biocapitalism behind financialization: the precarity trap and the new industrial reserve army -- Perspectives on the post-crisis: basic income and the precariat -- A post-crisis perspective: the impossibility of a new New Deal -- References -- 4. Social reproduction as a paradigm of the common: Reproduction antagonism, production crisis -- Defining social reproduction -- Welcome to the present -- New instances of reproduction -- References -- 5. Seizing Europe. Crisis Management, Constitutional Transformations, Constituent Movements -- Citizenship, democracy, and constitution -- Constitutional borderlands -- More Europe? -- Seize the time -- References -- 6. KORPOBRAZ: The Power of the Poor -- Anthropoemy? -- A Tupinambá capitalism?.

Brazilianization (anthropoemy) versus Mundobraz (anthropophagy) -- The art of the struggle -- The Indians versus the poor? -- The poor and the Indian -- Immaterial labor and the body -- KORPOBRAZ: The power of the poor -- References -- 7. Pathogenesis, Financialization and the Politics of Time -- The psychopathologies of semiocapitalism -- Quantifying the immeasurable -- Time, debt, and struggle -- References -- Part II. Post-Crisis Readings of Hardt and Negri -- 8. The Many Faces of Power - Subjectivity, the Common, and Fundamental Crisis -- Introduction -- The many faces of power -- Different types of crisis -- Struggles over the common -- Figures of subjectivity in the age of crisis -- The represented -- The indebted -- The securitized -- The mediatized -- Power and the figures of subjectivity -- Alienation today -- Alienation and the common -- Being outside, being against -- Conclusion -- References -- 9. The Creative Democratic Potential of the Multitude: Solidarity and Love as Transcendence in Immanence -- Introduction -- The creative democratic potential of the multitude -- The social ontology of the common -- Criticism and potential for further analysis -- The social ontology of Buber and Theunissen: introducing transcendence in immanence -- Political concepts of solidarity and love -- References -- 10. The Art of Non-Playing Chess: The Institutionalization of the Common -- Against spontaneity: institutions by Hardt and Negri -- Institutionalization: social meaning and materialization -- Struggles for the common -- Autonomy and non-hegemonic alternatives -- Living well: an alternative development paradigm -- Social bond: spaces of mediation and interpretation -- Checkmate? -- References -- 11. Mendicancy on the Edge of Crisis: The Gift of Rights in a Time of Global Strife -- What are human rights and why are they beggars?.

The gift of rights or the power to govern via an idea -- Conclusion: modesty in the face of rights poverty -- References -- 12. Private Debt in the Age of Crisis - Strategies of Resistance -- Introduction -- Debt in the neoliberal paradigm -- From Fordism to post-Fordism -- Financialization and debt in the neoliberal paradigm -- The role of private consumption and lending practices -- The Luxury Trap as a part of the public discourse around debt -- Shaping the indebted subject in light of the economic crisis -- Resistance -- Potential acts of resistance among the indebted participants -- A collective crisis -- Denial and ambivalence -- Authoritarian tendencies -- Conclusion -- References -- 13. Political Attitude in the Age of Globalization -- Global biopolitics and generative human life -- Constituent bases of the multitude -- Social machinery and lived experience -- Political implication of a phenomenology of the flesh -- References -- Notes on editors and contributors -- Editors -- Contributors.