Dominic Pettman 
After the Orgy 
Toward a Politics of Exhaustion

Acknowledgments

Introduction: After the Orgy

The Dating Game
The Coming of the Lord
Technological Revelation
A Note on Methodology

1. Panic Merchants: Prophecy and the Satyr

The Goat in the Machine

2. The Rapture of Rupture

Sade and the Death of God
Avoiding the Void
Eroticism and the Thanatic Asymptote
Nietzsche’s Dionysus
Nihilism and the Thirst for Annihilation

3. The Virtual Apocalypse

Virilio’s Accident
Bacchanical Man and Ballard’s Crash
Technol-orgy: From Autogeddon to Infocalypse
Snow Crash and Scopophilia
Cyborgies in the Dionysian Landscape
Carmageddon

4. Decaying Forward: Satiety and Society

De-fragging the Self
Technologies of the Flesh

5. Cosmic Architects

Immaculate Contraception
Sexless Hydrogen: The Frisson of Fission
Dionysus in ‘69
The Politics of Play

6. Playing at Catastrophe

Prêt-à-Mort: Necrophilia and Death Fashion
Close Encounters of the Third Kind: The Joachite Structure of Baudrillard’s Philosophy
‘A Biocybernetic Self-Fulfilling Prophecy World Orgy I’: or Surviving the Necropolis
Temporary Autonomous Zones and the Archaic Revival
Civilization and Its Discotheques
After the Orgy (But Before the Test Results)
Conclusion: The Revelation Will not be Televised
Y2Care: Debugging the Millennium
The Owl of Minerva Versus the Millennium Falcon
Means to an End

Notes

Works Cited

Index