Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures ix
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. Notes on the Text xiv
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I ‘Modernity’s Objective Spirit’
8. Chapter 1 Anxious Humour and Alienating Labour 23
9. Chapter 2 Bureaucracy 41
10. Chapter 3 Social Alienation 59
11. Chapter 4 The Work of Art as Alienating Labour: Barton Fink (1991) and the End of Jewish Modernity 79
12. Part II Fascism and its Legacies
13. Chapter 5 Fernando Arrabal and the Persistence of the Spanish Civil War 95
14. Chapter 6 Memories from the Holocaust in Central Europe 111
15. Chapter 7 Parables of Underdevelopment 129
16. Part III Stalinist Terror
17. Chapter 8 Memories from the Rákosi Era 147
18. Chapter 9 Politicising the Absurd 165
19. Chapter 10 Jewish Purges 183
20. Part IV Late Capitalist Contradictions
21. Chapter 11 Behaviourist Surveillance 205
22. Chapter 12 Post-Fascism 225
23. Chapter 13 The Anthropocene Crisis 249
24. Epilogue 269
25. Bibliography 275
26. Index 295