Political theorist William E. Connolly brings process philosophy into conversation with contemporary neoliberalism.

Drawing on complexity theory, ecology, and thinkers such as Whitehead and Hayek, Connolly argues that late capitalism thrives on fantasies of self-regulating markets while ignoring the volatile, interdependent systems—climatic, financial, social—that sustain it.

Rather than offering a programmatic blueprint, the book probes the tension between fragility and resilience, asking what forms of democratic activism might respond to systemic precarity without reproducing the very logics they oppose. It sits squarely within critical political theory of the 2010s: attentive to affect, ecology, and the limits of liberal reformism.