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Chapter 1 - Introduction: Preparing for a "TransHuman" Future -- Chapter 2 - Evolving Beyond Human Relations -- Chapter 3 - Heading Toward Integration: The Rise of Human Machines -- Chapter 4 - Leading Future Lives: Producing Meaningful intelligence -- Chapter 5 - Creating Smart Economies: Administrating Empowering Futures -- Chapter 6 - Reprogramming Politics: Mutual Intelligent Design -- Chapter 7 - Legal Reboot: From Human Control to Transhuman Possibilities -- Chapter 8 - Shared Consciousness: Toward a World of Transhuman relations.

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface: Completely Monitored; 1. Monitored Subjects, Unaccountable Capitalism; 2. The Growing Threat of Digital Control; 3. Surveilling Ourselves; 4. Smart Realities; 5. Digital Salvation; 6. Planning Your Life at the End of History; 7. Totalitarianism 4.0; 8. The Revolution Will Not Be Monitored; Notes; Index

This book explores a central contradiction of 21st century economy and society: the more morally and politically unaccountable capitalism and capitalists are, the more accountable the mass majority of its subjects must become. The technocratic ideology and surveillance culture of our modern marketized societies hides a deeper reality of a free market that is unmanageable and a corporate elite whose actions cannot be traced let alone regulated.

This work highlights the paradoxical way an often disjointed and unjustifiable modern neoliberalism persists through subjecting individuals and communities to a wide range of technical and ethical 'accounting' in all areas of contemporary life. These pervasive practices of monitoring and codifying everything and everyone mask how at its heart this system and its elites remain socially uncontrollable and ethically out of control.

Innovatively combining existentialist philosophy with cutting edge post-structuralist and psychoanalytic perspectives, this book boldly reconsiders market freedom. Bloom argues that present day capitalism has robbed us of our individual and collective ability to imagine and implement alternative and more progressive economic and social systems; it has deprived us of our radical freedom to choose how we live and what we can become. Since the Great Recession, capitalism has been increasinglyblamed for rising inequality and feelings of mass social and political alienation. In place of a deeper liberty, the free market offers subjects the opportunity to continually reinvest their personal and shared hopes within its dogmatic ideology and policies. This embrace helps to temporarily alleviate growing feelings of anxiety and insecurity at the expense of our fundamental human agency. What has become abundantly clear is that the free market is anything but free. Here, Bloom exposes our present day bad faith in the free market and how we can break free from it.

The tyranny of power and resistance -- Tracing out the history of power and resistance -- The enlightened faith in power and resistance -- Colonized by power and resistance -- Producing the modern power and resistance subject -- Breaking free from power and resistance -- Beyond power and resistance : the new conditions of possibilities -- Politics at the radical limits : from permanent revolution to eternal possibility

"The 21st century is the age of "neo-liberalism"--A time when the free market is spreading to all areas of economic, political and social life. Yet how is this changing our individual and collective ethics? Is capitalism also becoming our new morality? From the growing popular demand for corporate social responsibility to personal desire for "work-life balance" it would appear that non-market ideals are not only surviving but also thriving. Why then does it seem that capitalism remains as strong as ever?The Ethics of Neoliberalism boldly proposes that neoliberalism strategically co-opts traditional ethics to ideologically and structurally strengthen capitalism. It produces "the ethical capitalist subject" who is personally responsible for making their society, workplace and even their lives "more ethical" in the face of an immoral but seemingly permanent free market. Rather than altering our morality, neoliberalism "individualizes" ethics, making us personally responsible for dealing with and resolving its moral failings. In doing so, individuals end up perpetuating the very market system that they morally oppose and feel powerless to ultimately change. This analysis reveals the complex and paradoxical way capitalism is currently shaping us as "ethical subjects". People are increasingly asked to ethically "save" capitalism both collectively and personally. This can range from the "moral responsibility" to politically accept austerity following the financial crisis to the willingness of employees to sacrifice their time and energy to make their neoliberal organizations more "humane" to the efforts by individuals to contribute to their family and communities despite the pressures of a franetic global business environment. Neoliberalism, thus, uses our ethics against us, relying on our "good nature" and sense of personal responsibility to reduce its human cost in practice. Ironically"--Provided by publisher.

This book explores a central contradiction of 21st century economy and society: the more morally and politically unaccountable capitalism and capitalists are, the more accountable the mass majority of its subjects must become. The technocratic ideology and surveillance culture of our modern marketized societies hides a deeper reality of a free market that is unmanageable and a corporate elite whose actions cannot be traced let alone regulated. This work highlights the paradoxical way an often disjointed and unjustifiable modern neoliberalism persists through subjecting individuals and communities to a wide range of technical and ethical 'accounting' in all areas of contemporary life. These pervasive practices of monitoring and codifying everything and everyone mask how at its heart this system and its elites remain socially uncontrollable and ethically out of control.

This article introduces contemporary discourses of 'work–life balance' as a cultural fantasy revolving self-hood around employment and organizations. To do so, it draws on the Lacanian interpretation of the Freudian 'death drive' to highlight the importance of 'disequilibrium' for the construction of the subject and individual identification therein. More precisely, it reflects on the ways this structuring of self-hood associated with the impossible pursuit of 'equilibrium' maps out onto present desires for 'work–life balance' and its subsequent production of a regulated 'imbalanced' subject. It argues that individuals are maintained as subjects through their identification with and paradoxical enjoyment, or jouissance, from being 'imbalanced'. Consequently, capitalist work and organizations stand as the contemporary limit of 'life' through their fundamental role in producing and sustaining this 'imbalanced' subject in search of 'balance'. It is ironically in this longing to overcome this 'imbalance', to 'work to live', that individuals remain even more strongly a capitalist and organizational 'subject of desire'. They literally cannot go on subjectively 'living' without capitalist work.