** 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