This chapter zeroes in on the lumpenproletariat, the long-term unemployed and criminal elements of a capitalist society that exist at its margins and in its pores. In The Chantic Bird and The Flesheaters, Ireland creates a lumpenproletariat that is simultaneously everywhere and nowhere. The narrators of both texts are outsiders to the main class game, a position that affords them the opportunity to come to a number of highly fecund understandings of the constituent features and contradictions of abstract space. However, Ireland’s narrators are ultimately forced to realise that there is no space or place that is truly outside of capital within a capitalist social formation. In their lumpenproletarian positions, they are haunted both by the power of the abstract and the classes they simultaneously despise and are despised by. To the degree that either narrator has a coherent project, they gain it only through shedding their lumpenproletarian identities and internalising the political economy of capital.