** Foreword by Hari Alluri

*** Willing to be Troubled: an essay with a love note to Gil Scott-Heron

** Introduction

*** Questions

*** Affirmative theory

*** Joy and the Spinozan current

*** Joyful militancy and emergent powers

*** Beyond optimism and pessimism

*** On anarchism

*** The beginning of a conversation

*** Structure of the book

** Chapter 1: Empire, Militancy, and Joy

*** Resistance and joy are everywhere

*** Sadness and subjection

*** Joy is not happiness

*** The power of joy

*** Militant about joy

*** Starting from where people find themselves

** Chapter 2: Friendship, Freedom, Ethics, Affinity

*** The urgency of making kin[43]

*** Friendship is the root of freedom

*** From morality to ethics

*** What can friendship do?

*** Solidarity begins at home

*** The ethics of affinity in anarchism

*** Connecting Spinozan currents to Indigenous resurgence

*** Friendship and freedom have sharp edges

*** The active shaping of our worlds together

** Chapter 3: Trust and Responsibility as Common Notions

*** Trust and responsibility as common notions

*** (Mis)trust and (ir)responsibility under Empire

*** Empire’s radical monopoly over life

*** Towards conviviality

*** Emergent trust and responsibility: three examples

**** Indigenous struggles

**** Anti-violence and transformative justice

**** Deschooling and youth liberation

*** The power of baseline trust

*** Infinite trust and responsibilities?

*** Holding common notions gently

** Chapter 4: Stifling Air, Burnout, Political Performance

*** Toxic contours

*** It’s those people

*** The paradigm of government

*** Decline and counterrevolution

*** The perils of comparing

*** Having good politics

** Chapter 5: Undoing Rigid Radicalism, Activating Joy

*** Three stories of rigid radicalism

*** Ideology

**** The militant diagram

**** Ideology in anarchism

**** The limits of ideology

**** Undoing ideology

*** Morality, fear, and ethical attunement

**** The Christian origins of morality

**** Morality in movement

**** Warding off morality with common notions

*** You’re so paranoid, you probably think this section is about you[166]

**** Lack-finding, perfectionism, schooling, walking

**** Radical perfectionism and paranoid reading

**** Holding ambivalence

**** The limits of critique: from paranoia to potential

*** Towards new encounters

** Outro

*** Three modes of attunement

** Appendix 1: Feeling Powers Growing—An Interview with Silvia Federici

** Appendix 2: Breaking Down the Walls around Each Other—An Interview with Kelsey Cham C.

** Appendix 3: Further Reading

*** Chapter 1: Empire, Militancy, Joy

*** Chapter 2: Friendship, Freedom, Ethics

*** Chapter 3: Trust and Responsibility as Common Notions

*** Chapter 4: Stifling Air, Burnout, Political Performance

*** Chapter 5: Undoing Rigid Radicalism

** Glossary of Terms

** Bibliography

** Footnotes