** Introduction: The Iron Law of Liberalism and the Era of Total Bureaucratization
** 1. Dead Zones of the Imagination: An Essay on Structural Stupidity
** 2. Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit
*** Thesis: There appears to have been a profound shift, beginning in the 1970s, from investment in technologies associated with the possibility of alternative futures to investment technologies that furthered labor discipline and social control
*** Antithesis: Yet even those areas of science and technology that did receive massive funding have not seen the breakthroughs originally anticipated
*** Synthesis: On the Movement from Poetic to Bureaucratic Technologies
** 3. The Utopia of Rules, or Why We Really Love Bureaucracy After All
*** I. The Enchantment of Disenchantment, or The Magical Powers of the Post Office
*** II. Rationalism as a Form of Spirituality
*** III. On the Bureaucratization of the Antibureaucratic Fantasy
*** IV. The Utopia of Rules
** Appendix: On Batman and the Problem of Constituent Power