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Author:   Dr Sean Parson (Northern Arizona University, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781350537323

ISBN 10:   1350537322
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   05 February 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

An Anti-Introduction: A Leap Into the Void I. Anti-Theory: Dada, Situationism, Stirner, and Punk II. An Outline of Things to Come: An Anti-introduction Chapter One: The Crisis of Representation and the Collapse of the Liberal Order I. The Mediated Reality, the Hyperreal, and the Crisis of Representation II. The Collapse of the Post-war Spectacle III. The Current Crisis of Representation IV. Concluding Thoughts: Past, Present, Future and the End of History Chapter Two: Industrialism is a Death Camp I. Industrial Objects and the Materiality of Symbolic Anxiety II. A Genealogical Analysis of the Gas Mask: From Plague Doctors to Anti-state Protestors III. Industrialism as Suicidal Blackmail Chapter Three: The Climate isn’t Real I. The Simulacra and Disaster Management: The Environment and Climate II. The Politics of Models: Administrative Rationalism and the state regulation of Illusions: III. Accepting the Nonidentity of Nature: Solaris, Cthuhlu, and the Masterless Object IV. Anti-World Politics: Revolutionary Demonology and the Destruction of Enlightenment Order Chapter Four: A Rising Tide Sinks All Art Galleries I. Art, the Economy, the State: II. Negation as an Artistic Medium: Activism as Performance Art III. Mausoleums of our Extinct Culture IV. Art as Resistance and Resistance as Art Chapter Five: No Future, No Hope I. What the End of the World Means… II. Temporal Nihilism III. “The Revolutionary is a Doomed Man”: Towards Political Nihilism in the 21st Century Chapter Six: Without Gallows Humor There is Only the Gallows I. “Dancing on the Corpses Ashes”: Russian Political Nihilism and Clearing the Rubble of Social Collapse II. “The Goal of my Activities is the Destruction of all Living Things”: The Revolutionary Nihilism of Kaneko Fumiko III. “We All Die in a Yellow Submarine”: Resentment and the Tragi-comedy of Dead Billionaires IV. Conclusion: Cabin in the Woods and the Politics of Armed Joy Chapter Seven: Towards A Nihilistic Politics of Attack I. “The Revolutionary Handbrake"": Walter Benjamin on Revolution and the Future II. A Strategy of Attack: Against Accelerationism and Withdrawal III. “The misplaced optimism of the doomed”: Snowpiercer (2013) as Destituent Power and An Insurrectionary Handbreak Conclusion: A Requiem for Our World

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Punk Anarchism is a meditation on negation, a reminder that capitalism cannot cure the catastrophe it creates and that reason grounds its destructive force. Refusing to accept the world ‘as it is’, Parson exposes its idiocy and uses impermanence to urge resistance. The enduring lesson is that the passion for destruction is a creative passion, too! * Ruth Kinna, Professor of Political Philosophy, Loughborough University, UK * Parson delivers a ferocious and uncompromising assault on the death cult of industrial capitalism, weaving together punk aesthetics, nihilist philosophy, and ecological catastrophe into a compelling argument for anti-world politics. This book doesn't offer false hope or reformist solutions-instead, it embraces the liberatory potential of negation and destruction, calling for nothing less than the complete dismantling of the representational order that is driving us toward civilizational collapse. * Peter Burdon, Professor in the Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics, University of Adelaide, Australia *

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Sean Parson is Professor in the Department of Politics and International Affairs at Northern Arizona University, USA. They are the author of Cooking Up a Revolution: Resistance to Gentrification (2019) and the co-editor of four edited books includingRepresentations of Political Resistance and Emancipation in Science Fiction (2020).

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