In Marx’s time, the proletarian potential for resistance did not arise primarily, as some Marxists still like to wish, from the struggle against the commodity form, but rather it was the techno-economic conditions of the transition from wood to coal […]
Derivative communism or barbarism
Zu Marxens Zeiten erwuchs das proletarische Widerstandspotenzial nicht in erster Linie, wie sich das manche Marxisten immer noch gerne wünschen, aus dem Kampf gegen die Warenform, sondern es waren vielmehr die techno-ökonomischen Bedingungen des Übergangs vom Holz zur Kohle als
Derivate-Kommunismus oder Barbarei
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
It’s easy to get a sense of deja-vu when you get home and start reading press reports and twitter accounts from a demonstration. For that reason, whilst I’ll be writing about the events in Bristol this Sunday, I’m also writing
WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED IN BRISTOL – AND HOW A NARRATIVE IS BUILT (english/deutsch)
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
“Die Riots kommen; sie sind bereits da. Weitere sind unterwegs, daran besteht kein Zweifel. Und sie verdienen eine angemessene Theorie.” – Joshua Clover (2016) “You will notice the weather only when it starts to die.” – Sean Bonney (2016) Riots
Die unerhörte Sprache des Riot. Joshua Clovers Riot.Strike.Riot.
“Riots are coming, they are already here, more are on the way, no one doubts it. They deserve an adequate theory. ” – Joshua Clover (2020) Riots – literally surplus, misunderstanding, neither this nor that: “too toxically masculine,” “too Lenin,”
Riot’s Unheard Language / Joshua Clover’s Riot.Strike.Riot
On December 17, 2010, a young Tunisian named Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire to protest his treatment at the hands of police, setting in motion the wave of uprisings that came to be known as the Arab Spring. Today, Tunisia is experiencing its
Tunisia: From the 2011 Revolution to the Revolt of 2021: New Stirrings in North Africa
BY DENNIS BÜSCHER-ULBRICH, MARLON LIEBER. Coils of the Serpent ISSUE 8 (2021): IM/POSSIBILITY: ON THE PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION, AND ARTICULATION OF THE POSSIBLE AND Joshua Clover: I suppose this question pivots on how we define socialism. Is it still thelower stage of communism,
“TO PRESERVE THE POSSIBILITY OF COMMUNAL LIFE AND EMANCIPATION”: AN INTERVIEW WITH JOSHUA CLOVER
Die jüngsten Unruhen von den Niederlanden bis Tunesien haben Gemeinsamkeiten, die in der politischen und medialen Debatte im Westen ausgeblendet werden Die Unruhen der letzten Tage, die in den Niederlanden vor den Wahlen die innenpolitische Diskussion bestimmen, haben sich Mitte
Am 5. Januar wurde schmerzlich klar, dass es keine politische Organisation gibt, die abgehängte Weiße und Black Lives Matter-Aktivist*innen in einer Aktion vereinen kann. Am 20. Januar konnte man weder Fernseher noch Radio einschalten, so penetrant schalten die Floskeln aus
Zwischen Bonapartismus und Digitalindustrie
translated by deep l. you can order the book (in german) Joshua Clover Riot.Strike.Riot here The protests against the G-20 summit in Hamburg in the summer of 2017 culminated in a micro-riot in the Schanzenviertel.1 For the first time in
The uprising as a part of the global circulation struggles