Enormous inequalities, climate catastrophe, creeping fascism, absolute police control - the spectacle of capitalism is a huge obscenity that increasingly limits the horizon of political imagination. It is easy to understand that under such circumstances the idea arises that one should not place one's hopes in the state organs colonized by capitalism. But what is the alternative? How can we imagine a world that is no longer dominated by institutions, bureaucracy, police, wage labor and the dictates of money? How can a life be thought of - and lived - beyond hierarchy and domination? In his passionate conversation with Félix Boggio Éwanjé-Épée, the French sociologist and economist Frédéric Lordon enters the middle of the present, which is plagued by existential catastrophes, and thus draws with sharpness, wit and intellectual brilliance, linking political theory with the Spinozist idea of becoming different, the contours of a way of thinking that does not resign, but gives courage - courage to do so, to reclaim one's own imagination. Biography (Felix Kurz) Felix Kurz, 59, is a freelance journalist and was an editor at the news magazine Der SPIEGEL for over 18 years. He is a founding member of the tageszeitung and a specialist in investigative journalism, reporting on federal and European politics. He is also the co-author of several books.