Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Julia Nikiel -- Copyright page / Julia Nikiel -- Acknowledgments / Julia Nikiel -- Introduction: “We Live in Financial Times” / Julia Nikiel -- Chapter 1 The Fictions Capital Weaves: Theorizing the Global Contemporary and Its (Literary) Representations / Julia Nikiel -- Chapter 2 The Forever Now: Foretelling the Present in William Gibson’s Bigend Trilogy / Julia Nikiel -- Chapter 3 Extreme Vertigo: Narrating the Information Age in Douglas Coupland’s Post-millennial Fiction / Julia Nikiel -- Chapter 4 A Jack in the (Black) Box: Exorcising the Capitalist Spectacle in Dave Eggers’ A Hologram for the King, The Circle , and The Parade / Julia Nikiel -- Conclusion: “You’ve Been Framed…” / Julia Nikiel -- Works Cited / Julia Nikiel -- Index / Julia Nikiel.

If it is indeed impossible to think beyond capitalism, then capital has become reality. If global capitalism organizes reality through the stories it weaves, capital is (as strong as) its fictions. If capital is reality and capital is fiction, then reality as such is fiction as well. It is by reading this fiction for both patterns and inconsistencies that contemporary individuals can challenge global capital and unveil its hypocrisies; and it is by fighting fiction with fiction, i.e. projecting new realities – such as those in the post-millennial novels by William Gibson, Douglas Coupland, and Dave Eggers – that people can imagine the world anew.

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