Chapter
The right-wing values backlash
The left’s (generally pitiful) attempts to reclaim value
Contextualizing Marx’s theory of value
The commodification of social values
Relative worthlessness and capitalism as (a)moral system
Neoliberal globalization and left institutionalism
Values are practices, not ideals
Feminists and Black Panthers
Reclaiming value: workers’ centres, anti‑foreclosure movements and eco-communities
Reclaiming the value of the imagination
TWO | Publics, commons, occupations
The public residues of common struggles
The promise of the occupations
Making the commons public and the public common
THREE | The crisis of the financialized imagination
What is financialization?
The politics of financialization
Inevitable crises of the financial imagination
FOUR | Within and beyond the edu-factory
The edu-factory and its masters
The laboratory of discipline and the debt factory
From ivory tower to neoliberal embassy
The university of the commons
FIVE | The enclosure of history, the debt of the past, the commons of memory
The doing of memory, the done of history
Recalling the radical event of May ’68
SIX | The enclosure of creativity
The creation of creativity
The rise of ‘creative capitalism’
The passion of the creative class
Struggles for and against creativity
Creating a different world
SEVEN | What is the radical imagination?
Romantics and revolutionaries
The radical imagination into the twentieth century
The anti-colonial imaginary, the New Left, feminism and beyond
Neoliberalism, globalization and new theories of the imagination
The fate of the imaginationin an age of ‘cognitive capitalism’
Globalization and struggles for the imagination
CONCLUSION | Fatalism and its discontents
Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power
：Capitalism, Creativity and the Commons
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