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Riot. Strike. Riot. : the new era of uprisings

Title
Riot. Strike. Riot. : the new era of uprisings / Joshua Clover.
Author
Clover, Joshua
Publication
London ; New York : Verso, 2016.

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"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"--
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JFD 16-3617
ISBN
  • 9781784780593
  • 1784780596
LCCN
2016004124
OCLC
2016004124
Author
Clover, Joshua, author.
Title
Riot. Strike. Riot. : the new era of uprisings / Joshua Clover.
Publisher
London ; New York : Verso, 2016.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Research Call Number
JFD 16-3617
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