Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1 The Moment of Critique 1 The Distance of Critique 2 Matter against Materialism 3 Apocalypse and Crisis Part 2 Crisis Culture 4 The Aesthetics of Crisis 5 Scale, Commodity, Totality 6 The Crisis of European Philosophy Part 3 Crisis and Communisation 7 Communisation and the Fabric of Struggles 8 Communisation and the End of Art 9 War and Communisation Part 4 Critical Figures 10 The Masses Make History: On Fredric Jameson 11 History and Crisis: Gregory Elliott and the End of Marxism 12 Crisis as Catastrophe: Francis Mulhern on Cultural Criticism 13 Crisis and Capitalist Realism: The Antinomies of Mark Fisher Conclusion Bibliography Index.