Defying easy analysis the writing in this book looks and feels different than other books. Culled from an epic monologue first given in 2007 and published in 2009 (revised with additional material in 2016) Perice seeks to apprehend economic decline within a state that initiates wars of empire that rage around the world. Reversing Raymond Williams’s famous “Structures of feeling” Perice touches the empire as it enters everyday life in the media, in worry, in the feeling of money, and even in the cockpit of an old war plane at an airshow.