To live and think like pigs : the incitement of envy and boredom in market democracies

Foreword / Alain Badiou -- Preface -- The palace's night of red and gold: on the entry of France into the tertiary society -- Chaos as imposture, self-regulation as festive neoconservatism -- Hobbes's Robinson-particles: political arithmetic and mercantile empiricism -- The average man as statistical degradation of the ordinary man -- Democracy as political market, or: From market democracy to thermocracy -- Market democracy will be fluid or will not be at all: fluid nomads and viscous losers -- Robinsons on wheels and petronomads -- When good sense turns nasty: the Fordism of hate and the resentment industry -- The 'Béassine Memorial Lectures' on urban populism -- The new French exception: cultural upstarts -- The dissident Knights of Professor Walras, or Economic droit de seigneur -- Towards the end or the beginning of history: middle class yoghurt-maker or heroism of the anyone? -- Glossary for the reader uninitiated in political economy.