Foreword
Greg Palast
Acknowledgements
Illustrations
Introduction: Busting out of Plato 's Cave
1 The Symbolic Institution of Society
1
Symbolic Interactionism
2
Interaction Exchange and Collective Norms
3
Critical Theory and Post-Structuralism/Postmodernism
3.1
Cornelius Castoriadis
3.2
Michel Foucault
3.3
Guy Debord
3.4
Jean Baudrillard
4
Beyond Post-Structuralism/Postmodernism
2The Spectacle
1
Audience Segmentation
1.1
Sociocultural and Spatial Segmentation
1.2
Educational Segmentation
1.3
Economic Segmentation
1.4
Political Segmentation
2
Total Propaganda
3
Symbolic Institutions
3.1
Educational Institutions
3.2
Economic Institutions
3.3
Political Institutions
3.4
Legal Institutions
3.5
Protective Institutions
3 It 's All Spectacular
1
Spectacular History
2
Postmodern Spectacles
2.1
Doubleplusgood: Spectacular Capitalism
2.2
Plusgood: Spectacular Socialism/Communism
3
Spectacular Class
4
The Quantum Mechanics of Value and Capital
4.1
The Relativity of Value
4.2
There Is No Spoon: Capital(ism)
4 The Monetization of Everything
1
Life, Flesh, and Death
2
Food, Water, and the Environment
3
Cities, Nations, and Culture
4
Time and Space
5
The Global Spectacle
5.1
Finance
5.2
Trade
5.3
Segmented Labor
5 The Structure of Postmodern Caste
1
Social Order
1.1
Privileges and Disabilities Based on Ascription
1.2
Who Pays the Piper?
1.3
Extreme Structural Inequality
2
Caste Groups
2.1
Ruling Caste
2.2
Nobles
2.3
Privileged Labor
2.4
Required Labor
2.5
Precarious Labor
2.6
Institutional Slaves
3
Legitimizing Twenty-First-Century Serfdom
3.1
Mr. Baptist Has Been Too Harsh on the Slavers
Conclusion: Bakunin 's Conundrum
Bibliography
Index
