In this book, Chun examines the ways in which identities, discourses and topographies of both capitalist and anti-capitalist imaginaries and realities are embodied in the everyday practices of people. This book is vital reading for students and researchers working in the fields of applied linguistics, discourse analysis and cultural studies. With the vast and often terrible panorama of US capitalism as a backdrop, in this book Christian Chun demonstrates yet again not only his great erudition and insight, but also why he is every good-thinking person's public revolutionary. Chun deftly unpicks the contradictions of capitalist life and in the everyday experiences of people's labour under capitalism uncovers a shared vision and humanity that is both counter-hegemonic as well as potentially radically transforming. A work for our times. John P. O'Regan, University College London, UK