Introduction : almost nothing
Part I: 'Dharma bums', 1958-71. Junk aesthetics in a throwaway age
'At the point of imperceptibility'
The 'good-for-nothing'
Part II: The 'light years', 1991-2009
Joins in the age of 'liquid modernity'
Futility and precarity
Postscript : on the humanism of precarious works.