{"product_id":"riot-strike-riot-the-new-era-of-uprisings-joshua-clover-by-working-class-history-shop","title":"Riot. Strike. Riot: The New Era of Uprisings – Joshua Clover by Working Class History | Shop","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eFulfilled by our friends at Working Class History | Shop\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-teaser\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-info\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-info\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-teaser\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAvailable with shipping in the US and UK only.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePolitical theorist Joshua Clover theorizes the riot as the form of the coming insurrection\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBaltimore. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-reviews js-isReadmoreized\"\u003e\n\u003ch2 class=\"edition-single--book-reviews-header\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Riot, in this absolutely necessary book, is considered as differential procedure and rigorous improvisational method, as essential repertoire on the way from general malaise to general strike. But then this conception folds tightly yet disorderly into a new and open set of questions. It’s not that the raging, ragged entrance to the new golden age is the new golden age. It’s not that theory can’t bear a riot. It’s just that riot makes new ways of seeing what theory can and can’t do and imposes upon us a kind of knowledge of our own embarrassing and already given resources of enjoyment. Joshua Clover says riot deserves a proper theory but here—sly, stone cold—he gives us more than that. Now we have some guidelines for the new and ongoing impropriety that fleshes forth and fleshes out our optimal condition.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e– Frederick Charles Moten, University of California, Riverside, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Feel Trio\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--readmoreized-reviews\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Joshua Clover’s project is to reveal the continuities between Occupy and Ferguson, and to historicize a new era of uprisings within the long centuries of capital restructuring, racialized containment, and collective action. In its sweep, rigor, and elegance,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRiot. Strike. Riot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis pleasurable and provocative, worthy of the urgent debates it should inspire.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e– Jeff Chang, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCan't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWho We Be: The Colorization of America\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“[F]risky, audacious …\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRiot. Strike. Riot\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003escreams across the sky of our electoral theater.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e– Michael Robbins,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/lifestyles\/books\/ct-prj-riot-strike-riot-joshua-clover-20160505-story.html\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“[Clover is] one of the liveliest, sharpest, and erudite cultural theorists in the US.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e– Charles Mudede,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/slog\/2016\/05\/27\/24134194\/joshua-clover-discusses-riots-and-strikes-at-left-bank-books\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Stranger\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003e[Riot. Strike. Riot.]\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ethrills. It elucidates and, in a way, valorizes a taboo fixture of the political arena in an era of seemingly perpetual economic crisis and withering patience for mere reform.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e– Sam Lefebvre,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.eastbayexpress.com\/oakland\/broken-windows-reveal-a-revolutionary-horizon-in-joshua-clovers-riot-strike-riot\/Content?oid=4832537\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eEast Bay Express\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Phenomenal … The genius of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRiot. Strike. Riot\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003elies in its concise and historically confident analysis of riots.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e– Justin Slaughter,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.publicbooks.org\/multigenre\/art-protest-riot\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublic Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Joshua Clover provides a history of the present that is at once erudite and militant. In unfailingly elegant prose he not only traces where today’s struggles came from but also proposes how they can chart the path to a new future.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e– Michael Hardt, co-author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAssembly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“If communism is, as Marx wrote, ‘the real movement which abolishes the present state of things,’ then Joshua Clover is its most lucid and uncompromising contemporary theorist. Among its many virtues,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRiot.Strike.Riot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eexplains how our time of stagnant economic growth, exclusionary state violence, and uprisings of those left without reserves, might be capitalism’s end times. In doing so, he challenges all of us who are committed to bending the status quo toward justice to an ambition adequate to its breaking point.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e– Nikhil Pal Singh, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRace and America’s Long War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Why do we find police in places where there was once an economy? This unique book is a brilliant, clearheaded analysis of the historical relation between two forms of struggle, focusing on the riot, a pre-capitalist form returning in the transformed mode of ‘riot prime’ as one of the most telling forms of our late capitalist present. Along the way, Joshua Clover gives us much needed concepts to deal with the strange new negations we have come to encounter in this moment of waning accumulation—Long Crisis, the production of nonproduction, aerosolized production—as capital shifts its center of gravity to circulation, and nonlabor struggles emerge as the logical form of social conflict based on shared distance from labor markets rather than shared labor conditions. R-S-R’ is a theory of riot but as such, crucially, a theory of periodization; it is essential reading for all students of the present.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e– Sianne Ngai, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eOur Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003eAuthor: Joshua Clover\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Verso\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781784780623\u003cbr\u003ePublished: 06\/2019\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003ePage count: 240\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-reviews js-isReadmoreized\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"VYSN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42651355185246,"sku":"carro-48574635","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/6555\/6830\/files\/riotstrikeriot.jpg?v=1776300769","url":"https:\/\/impossible-girls-2.myshopify.com\/products\/riot-strike-riot-the-new-era-of-uprisings-joshua-clover-by-working-class-history-shop","provider":"Impossible girl's","version":"1.0","type":"link"}