Capitalism in the Age of Catastrophe : The Newest Developments of Financial Capital in Times of Polycrisis

1 The Ecstatic of the Excess in Bataille, Baudrillard, and Marx -- 2 Overaccumulation and Crisis -- 3 The Hypertrophy of the Excess: Speculative Capital and Derivatives -- 4 The Transformation of the Shareholder Concept and the New Asset Managers -- 5 Financial Capital. Leverage Power and Financial Infrastructure -- 6 The Financial Crisis as a Temporal Crash of the Excess -- 7 State and Financial Market -- 8 Central Banks as Crisis Actors of the Excess.-9 The Phenomenon of Stagflation -- 10 Debt as a Phenomenon of the Excess -- 11 Finance, World Market, and Imperialism -- 12 The Capitalization of Nature -- 13 The Capitalocene and the Fossil Capital (Overpollution) -- 14 The ecstasy of Information: Big Tech and Platforms -- 15 The Surplus Population.