Lawrence Grossberg is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author and editor of numerous books, including Cultural Studies in the Future Tense (2010), We All Want to Change the World (2015), Under the Cover of Chaos (2018), and On the Way to Theory (2024).

1. Tilting at Windmills, Part I: Everybody Knows, 2. A Question of Affect, 3. The Problem of Thinking, 4. On The Way To Thinking, 5. Contextual Thinking, 6. The Discipline of the Conjuncture, Part II: You Want It Darker, 7. The Problem Space of Affect, 8. The Problem Space of the Modern, Part III: In the Dreams That We Dream, We Ask What Have We Done?, 9. We're on a Marathon (Prelude), 10. We Stumble and Fall: The Liberal and Hegemonic Tendencies, 11. We Find We're Alone: Stories of Polarization, 12. We Beg Warmth from the Sun: The Speculative Tendency, 13. We Stand for What's Right: The Pseudo-Revolutionary Tendency, Part IV: We Would Build a New World if We Only Knew How, 14. There Is a Crack in Everything (Politics), 15. That's How the Light Gets in (Stories), 16. I Wish There Was a Treaty We Could Sign (Difference and Belonging), 17. Dance Me to the End of Love