Riot
The insurrection as a real event stands for transcendence ~ x, for an outside in which a new relation between the world and lived experience is invented, much more, for an outside that escapes the world. The insurrection can serve […]
The insurrection as a real event stands for transcendence ~ x, for an outside in which a new relation between the world and lived experience is invented, much more, for an outside that escapes the world. The insurrection can serve […]
Introduction: Outside the Room On July 29 2020, in a sweltering Washington heatwave, a roomful of US congresspeople, most, but not all, masked against the rampant coronavirus, interrogated the virtually-present CEOs of four of the most highly market-valued companies on
Big Tech in Capital’s Time of Troubles: Theoretical Notes
For me, a border is a process that modulates the circulation of things. It continually distributes and redistributes flows of movement that pass through or around it. read here Foto: Stefan Paulus
Borders, Movement, and Being-in-Between
taken from bonustracks Into the Black Box Das Buch ‘Riot.Strike.Riot’ von Joshua Clover, eine lange und präzise historisch-politische Analyse der Entwicklung der Formen des sozialen Konflikts in der Moderne. Wir hatten das Vergnügen, das Nachwort für die italienische Ausgabe des
LOGISTIK 4.0, STREIKS UND ZIRKULIERENDE SUBJEKTE. UNSERE POSITIONEN IN ‘RIOT.STRIKE.RIOT’
The recent “Freedom Convoy” of Canadian truckers and their fellow travelers — the technical term is a “clustertruck” — no doubt drew on 2018’s gilets jaunes movement in shutting down the Ambassador Bridge and three other border spans, along with various other
The Political Economy of Tactics
We present ht here, in three parts, a preliminary report on the book Speculative Capital, which contains the first comprehensive study of a new form of capital that dominates the economies of the 21st century. Throughout this report, we refer
Speculative Capital in the context of LiPumas theory of Speculation And CIrculatory Capital
The headlines are now so common that they’ve become banal, seeping into every aspect of our lives: from the office, where we’re told: “Wearable technology started by tracking your steps. Soon, it may allow your boss to track your performance”; To
An especially rough draft of a book chapter for the forthcoming collection,Neoliberalism and its Double-Binds (2022) ] On May 24, we admired on television the impressive Paris demonstration called by the central CGT trade union. Throughout the country were other
Communism Is The Riddle Posed To History
How does the history of class struggles appear from the perspective of the present? And from our vantage, what forms of struggle can be seen on the horizon? At base, these are the questions that concern Joshua Clover in Riot.
Disarticulating the Mass Picket
… Trying to monitor and control people’s circulation is similar to tracking atmo-spheric pollution and global air circulation in that both are complex systems that are incredibly unpredictable and prone to sudden feedback loops. The closer we look at things
Philosophy in the Time of COVID
“There are decades when nothing happens. And there are weeks in which decades happen.”Lenin Be it France, Hong Kong, Ecuador, Haiti, Egypt, Algeria, Lebanon, Iraq, Catalonia or Chile – the uprisings mark the beginning of a new cycle of struggles.
WORLD RIOTS – A NEW CYCLE OF FIGHTING (1)
The protests against the G-20 summit in Hamburg in the summer of 2017 culminated in a micro-insurgency in the Schanzenviertel. For the first time in a long time, a social antagonism was ignited in Germany for a brief moment, the
The Autumn of the Uprisings (2)