This graduate seminar examines how capitalism borders our world, and how we labor and organize our lives within those borders, and sometimes despite them. We will examine how capitalism “works”, what values it produces, and what it kills. To fuel this conversation, we will draw on a vast interdisciplinary curriculum of political and anthropological theories that examine the relationship between life and labor; from Marxist theories of accumulation and valorization through Black feminist reflections on reproduction and indentured labor to contemporary examinations of extractivism, incarceration and the deadly life of logistics. The course brings us, finally, to examine the future of labor with the advance of artificial intelligence and ecological ruin, and to consider the limits and possibilities of this ruin for the future of political action and collective existence. We will also be drawing from visual representations of these themes, as represented in contemporary popular culture.