General Motors is a book of chase scenes for a film without cars, lyric essays that depart from subways never built, and poems for walking off the job. Waking up in the arena of an abandoned public, the spectators are no longer spectators. In Philadelphia, a city built and un-built by capitalism, Ryan Eckes peels apart illusions of individual escape and pieces together a reality in which love means a common refusal of the neoliberal fantasy we’re expected to live in.