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Riot. Strike. Riot. : the new era of uprisings / Joshua Clover.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clover, Joshua, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Riots.
- Strikes and lockouts.
- Communal living.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 208 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : New York : Verso, [2016].
- Summary:
- "Ferguson. Tottenham. Clichy-Sous-Bois. Oakland. Within capital's core, the riot looms increasingly large within the repertoire of struggles. Rather than inchoate spasms or immiserated absence of the revolutionary idea, this book locates the riot within longue duree of capitalist transformation: facts not failures. Just as the turn to the strike two centuries ago signaled recompositions of class and society, the return of the riot testifies to current possibilities of anticapitalist struggle, featuring radicalized struggle beyond the labor market. Following the post-1600 course "riot-strike-riot," the book departs from lapsed models of party and revolution, showing how shifting global strategies to restore profitability since the 1970s must inevitably open onto "circulation struggles" which pass through riot, and whose horizon is the commune"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: A Theory of Riot p. 1
- A theory of riot
- Riot-strike-riot prime
- The marketplace and the factory floor
- Circulation-production-circulation prime
- Riot and crisis
- Circulation struggles
- Riot
- Chapter 1 What Is a Riot? p. 35
- What is a riot?
- The economic and the political
- The dilemma of reproduction
- Chapter 2 The Golden Age of Riot p. 49
- The golden age of riot
- The world market
- Riot and class struggle
- Chapter 3 The Swing, Or, Riot to Strike p. 61
- The swing: riot to strike
- Machine-breaking
- The many
- Strike
- Chapter 4 Strike Contra Riot p. 77
- Strike contra riot
- Spectacle and discipline
- Too much and too little
- Chapter 5 The General Strike p. 89
- The general strike
- Engels and Sorel
- The inversion of Rosa Luxemburg
- Chapter 6 Crossed Wires, Or, Strike to Riot p. 103
- Crossed wires, or riot and strike
- Struggle and profit
- Revolutions per minute
- Riot as modality
- Riot Prime
- Chapter 7 The Long Crisis p. 129
- The Long Crisis
- The arc of accumulation
- The spatialization of struggle
- The end of the program
- Overdetermination
- Chapter 8 Surplus Rebellions p. 153
- Surplus rebellions
- Proletarianization and racialization
- An agenda for total disorder
- The public riot
- Chapter 9 Riot Now: Square, Street, Commune p. 175
- Riot now: square, street, commune
- The square and class alliance
- The street and the rift
- Commune and catastrophe.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781784780593
- 1784780596
- OCLC:
- 942744670
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