在创造力与设计、高等教育以及知识资本之间关系日益复杂并为更多人所知的今天，三位学者通力合作，最终完成了本书。三位学者在书中对于上述诸种因素间的复杂关系进行了探讨，强调创造力、表达性艺术在大众审美表现过程中所起到的重要作用，同时也指出设计在当今创造力经济发展过程中所起到的重要基础作用。本书对当今世界经济的一系列最新变化进行了追踪——包括后工业化经济、信息经济、数字化经济、知识经济以及“创造力经济”——并对这些经济模式变化背后的知识资本主义根本发展趋势进行了总结概括，与此同时也对开源公共空间的后市场化观点进行了分析阐述。作者在本书中提出，创造力经济将在许多方面大大超越之前的经济模式，这不仅包括创造力的大众化发展趋势及相关的智力资本法律法规的相对化发展，也包括对创造力工作所需社会基础的进一步强调。书中指出，创造力经济的发展不仅会对基于常识和观念驱动的知识生产最前沿带来深远影响，这里不单单是指收益本身；而且也会极大地丰富人们对“知识管理”的认识，提高人们对根植于新生产模式的“创造力规则”的设计工作的认知程度。

Aesthetic Capitalism debates the social aesthetics of contemporary economic processes. The book connects modern cultural dynamics with the workings of contemporary capitalism. It explores art and the new spirit of capitalism; visual culture and the experience economy; aesthetics and organisations; the art of fiscal management; capitalism without myth; and architecture in the age of aesthetic capitalism.

Contributors include: Peter Murphy, Eduardo de la Fuente, Antonio Strati, Ken Friedman, Dominique Bouchet, Anders Michelsen, David Roberts, Carlo Tognato.

Locating science fiction as its own distinct and increasingly important narrative form, this book explores how the genre challenges pervasive perceptions of society as presented in the conventional modern novel. Inspired by, and building upon, Georg Lukács's criticism of the orthodox novel for its depiction of life as alienating and disjointed, Milner, Murphy and Roberts posit that science fiction steps beyond this contemporary form to be a more constructive literature, better able to conceive of society as complete, integrated and well-rounded. Taking stock of three kinds of science fiction which lie outside the scope of the modern novel - theological or ontological science fiction, the science fiction of future history and epic science fiction – this book demonstrates science fiction's unique capacity to encapsulate the whole world, persons and events, things and objects in a glance, and address the motive behind the wish for a meaningful totality.

With reference to a vast array of works by authors such as Michel Houellebecq, Elias Canetti , Isaac Asimov, Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, Marge Piercy, Iain M. Banks, Margaret Atwood, Ursula K. Le Guin, William Gibson, Dirk C. Fleck, Philip K. Dick, George Orwell and Kazuo Ishiguro, this book offers a compelling argument for rethinking the position and potential of the science fiction novel and to challenge the way we perceive our culture.