Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: Swindlers and Prophets; 1. Paris Spleen (The Irony of Revolutionary Power); 2. Animadversions (Technics after Capital); 3. An/economy and Some Others (Accumulationand the Coming Injustice); 4. Insert into Blankness (Poetry and Cultural Memoryin Benjamin's Baudelaire); Notes; Works Cited; Index
Counterfeit Capital is a comparative and interdisciplinary study exploring the unexpected yet essential relationship between irony and capital in the texts of Baudelaire and Marx and arguing for the renewed relevance of their work to contemporary thinking about the place of aesthetic and cultural experience in social and political life
