66 Days
It took 66 days to get from the first shelter-in-place order to the first riot. Alongside the absolute outrage over the murder of George Floyd, we might also register some small sense of hope that it remains possible for people […]
The Rise and Fall of Biopolitics: A Response to Bruno Latour
How swiftly do genres of the quarantine emerge! Notable among them is the discovery of the relation between the present pandemic and onrushing climate collapse. The driving force of this genre is not holy shit two ways for a lot
The Rise and Fall of Biopolitics: A Response to Bruno Latour
The Great March
… If the slogan of that antiwar movement, “No Blood for Oil,” seemed too great a simplification, it was not for all of that mistaken. There can be no doubt that something like racial extractivism, the intensified appropriation of cheap
Blockades and Border Walls
An excerpt from the afterword of the updated paperback edition of Riot. Strike. Riot by Joshua Clover, Are we in the early history of climate riots? What is already apparent is the state’s willingness to seize this situation on behalf of capital
The Time of Crisis
This text with images was originally presented at the Historical Materialism New York conference in May of 2011. Given the context, the text does not go into the sort of detail the matter really requires. A longer version is likely
Autumn of the System: Poetry and Financial Capital
It is worth recalling at this juncture that M-C-M! is not the formula foreconomic circulation as such, but a specific mode of same: that of capitalism. Parallel to this is the oft-elided fact that Marx nowhere claims that the sale
Autumn of the System: Poetry and Financial Capital
Five Notes on the Yellow Vest Movement
Number One: It’s a Riot Not the few urban episodes of fighting cops and looting shops but the whole thing. The national movement arose after President Emmanuel Macron imposed a fuel premium, supposedly to drive the transition from France’s diesel-centric
Five Notes on the Yellow Vest Movement
Die Verkehrskreisel-Riots
Frankreich, das der Welt ‘links’ und ‘rechts’ als Kategorien der politischen Orientierung geschenkt hat, scheint gerade fest dazu entschlossen zu sein, die Dynamiken einer Situation zu erkunden, in der dieses althergebrachte Spektrum nicht länger wie üblich funktioniert. Auf dieser Abstraktionsebene
The Roundabout Riots
taken from Verso France, having bequeathed to the world left and right as political concepts, now seems intent on exploring the dynamics of a situation in which the longstanding spectrum no longer functions according to custom. At that level of
Voting for the End of the World
Collective nihilism is no better than the lonelier forms of despair. The revulsion is perhaps a version of the “uncanny valley,” that experience of disturbing familiarity when a simulacrum of a person comes close to impersonating human behavior, so close
Voting for the End of the World
Volatile States
Haiti is home to the slave rebellion that became arguably the great revolution of the modern world. For its trouble, totally not-racist liberal democratic nations punished it systematically until it was one of the poorest nations on the planet. Except
Against Fortress Leftism
Free movement over markets is a minimum demand. In the most recent German elections, Die Linke (the Left) secured the fifth most seats in the Bundestag, the nation’s parliament. At the same time, nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD) came third,