Riot. Strike. Riot
The New Era of Uprisings
by Joshua Clover
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Pub Date May 17 2016 | Archive Date May 03 2016
Verso Books (US) | Verso
Description
Award winning poet Joshua Clover theorises the riot as the form of the coming insurrection
Baltimore. Ferguson. Tottenham. Clichy-sous-Bois. Oakland. Ours has become an “age of riots” as the struggle of people versus state and capital has taken to the streets. Award-winning poet and scholar Joshua Clover offers a new understanding of this present moment and its history. Rioting was the central form of protest in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and was supplanted by the strike in the early nineteenth century. It returned to prominence in the 1970s, profoundly changed along with the coordinates of race and class.
From early wage demands to recent social justice campaigns pursued through occupations and blockades, Clover connects these protests to the upheavals of a sclerotic economy in a state of moral collapse. Historical events such as the global economic crisis of 1973 and the decline of organized labor, viewed from the perspective of vast social transformations, are the proper context for understanding these eruptions of discontent. As social unrest against an unsustainable order continues to grow, this valuable history will help guide future antagonists in their struggles toward a revolutionary horizon.
Baltimore. Ferguson. Tottenham. Clichy-sous-Bois. Oakland. Ours has become an “age of riots” as the struggle of people versus state and capital has taken to the streets. Award-winning poet and scholar Joshua Clover offers a new understanding of this present moment and its history. Rioting was the central form of protest in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and was supplanted by the strike in the early nineteenth century. It returned to prominence in the 1970s, profoundly changed along with the coordinates of race and class.
From early wage demands to recent social justice campaigns pursued through occupations and blockades, Clover connects these protests to the upheavals of a sclerotic economy in a state of moral collapse. Historical events such as the global economic crisis of 1973 and the decline of organized labor, viewed from the perspective of vast social transformations, are the proper context for understanding these eruptions of discontent. As social unrest against an unsustainable order continues to grow, this valuable history will help guide future antagonists in their struggles toward a revolutionary horizon.
Advance Praise
Praise for Joshua Clover’s 1989:
“[A] dense, provocative, wonderfully written little book … Masterful.”“Clover is a gifted music writer, and his descriptions are vivid, surprising and politically sharp without ever being moralistic.”“Rewardingly ambitious. [Clover] writes with precision and loads of personality, weaving between global politics and musical genres (rave, hip-hop, grunge) with a fan’s intensity.”“Music and politics, drugs and society prove to be eerily congruent, and Clover’s tough analysis dismantles prevailing myths while revealing even stranger truths.”“Up close, Clover’s analysis is interesting and occasionally brilliant … Rich with historical and musical insight … It’s the smaller discoveries along the way that make 1989 worth your time.”“[It] is an academic book, but also one that fans of politics and pop culture would savor.”
“[A] dense, provocative, wonderfully written little book … Masterful.”“Clover is a gifted music writer, and his descriptions are vivid, surprising and politically sharp without ever being moralistic.”“Rewardingly ambitious. [Clover] writes with precision and loads of personality, weaving between global politics and musical genres (rave, hip-hop, grunge) with a fan’s intensity.”“Music and politics, drugs and society prove to be eerily congruent, and Clover’s tough analysis dismantles prevailing myths while revealing even stranger truths.”“Up close, Clover’s analysis is interesting and occasionally brilliant … Rich with historical and musical insight … It’s the smaller discoveries along the way that make 1989 worth your time.”“[It] is an academic book, but also one that fans of politics and pop culture would savor.”
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| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781784780593 |
| PRICE | $24.95 (USD) |
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