These 12 essays give you new perspectives on how Agamben's work is increasingly relevant to economy and political action: the two ideas that frame the most pressing problems of global politics. New analyses of Agamben's recent work on government and his relationship to the revolutionary tradition opening up new ways of thinking about politics and critical theory in the post-financial crisis world. Contributors: Daniel McLoughlin - Giorgio Agamben - Jason E. Smith - Jessica Whyte - Justin Clemens - Mathew Abbott - Miguel Vatter - Nicholas Heron - Sergei Prozorov - Simone Bignall - Steven DeCaroli