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Contents

Introduction

Part 1. Late Capitalism, Fordism, Post- Fordism

1. Postmodernism and Late Capitalism

2. Class and Consensus, Ideology and Technology

Part 2. Putting 'IT' to Work: : Post- Fordism, Information Technology and the Eclipse of Production

3. Making 'IT': The Soul of a New Machine

4. Faking 'IT': True Stories

5. Playing With 'IT': Microserfs

Part 3. Impotence and Omnipotence: The Cybernetic Discourse of Capitalism

6. Cybernetics, Systems Theory and the End of Ideology

7. Imaginary Resolutions: William Gibson's Cyberspace Trilogy

8. Artificial Intelligence and Class Consciousness: Blade Runner

Part 4. Capital, Class, Cosmopolitanism

9. Fordism, Post-Fordism and the Production of World Space

10. National Allegory and the Romance of Underdevelopment: The Names

11. Blindness and Insight in the World System: Until the End of the World

Conclusion Questioning Fordism and Post-Fordism

Notes