Introduction : consumption in an age of information / Sande Cohen and R. L. Rutsky -- The murder of the sign / Jean Baudrillard -- Future advertising : Dick's Ubik and the digital ad / Mark Poster -- Spending time / Thomas Lutz -- Information wants to be consumed / R. L. Rutsky -- Consumer discipline and the work of audiencing / Sean Cubitt -- Sado-monetarism or Saint Fond-Saint Ford / James Wiltgen -- Closing the net : "capitalism as religion" / Samuel Weber -- Disparity, information, and consumption : hello to an agonistics of the future / Sande Cohen.