Marx's critique of abstraction -- Capitalism's process of self-mystification -- Marx's theoretical process I : abstraction and representation -- Marx's theoretical process II : historicizing the dialectic -- Mediation as allegory : reading political economy through the artwork of Geoffrey Farmer...

Pt. 1, Critique of sovereignty. Singularity or the dignity of individuation ; Exception and critique ; Bataille's special use of the concept of sovereignty -- Pt. 2, Sovereignty and labor. Ax and fire : knowledge production and the superexploitation of contingent academic labor ; Sovereign,...