After the orgy : toward a politics of exhaustion / Dominic Pettman.
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State University of New York Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction: After the Orgy
- 1. Panic Merchants: Prophecy and the Satyr
- Goat in the Machine
- 2. Rapture of Rupture
- Sade and the Death of God
- Avoiding the Void
- Eroticism and the Thanatic Asymptote
- Nietzsche's Dionysus
- Nihilism and the Thirst for Annihilation
- 3. Virtual Apocalypse
- Virilio's Accident
- Bacchanical Man and Ballard's Crash
- Technol-orgy: From Autogeddon to Infocalypse
- Snow Crash and Scopophilia
- Cyborgies in the Dionysian Landscape
- Carmageddon
- 4. Decaying Forward: Satiety and Society
- De-fragging the Self
- Technologies of the Flesh
- 5. Cosmic Architects
- Immaculate Contraception
- Sexless Hydrogen: The Frisson of Fission
- Dionysus in '69
- Politics of Play
- 6. Playing at Catastrophe
- Pret-a-Mort: Necrophilia and Death Fashion
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind: The Joachite Structure of Baudrillard's Philosophy
- "A Biocybernetic Self-Fulfilling Prophecy World Orgy I": or Surviving the Necropolis
- Temporary Autonomous Zones and the Archaic Revival
- Civilization and Its Discotheques
- After the Orgy (But Before the Test Results)
- Conclusion: The Revelation Will not be Televised.