Michael Loadenthal

The Politics of Attack

Communiqués and Insurrectionary Violence

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This study is an exploration of insurrectionary anarchist praxis, with a particular focus on how the rhetoric, discourse, and theory is both informed and conveyed through communiqués. It challenges the reader to consider the marginalized ideas put forth by those political actors that communicate through bombs, arson, and broken windows, who are rejected through the state's construction of terrorism. When a police station is firebombed, the subsequent discussions focus more on the illegality of the act rather than the sociopolitical critique the actor put forth. What if we were to embrace the means through which the militant 'organic intellectual' acts, and consider the communiqué's content, the way one would consider any political text? This inter-textual analysis is presented within a political and historical context, with the hopes of elevating the discussion of insurrectionary praxis beyond notions of terrorism and securitization and towards its application for intersectional challenges to structural violence and domination. In the social war being waged by insurrectionary anarchists, small acts of violence are announced and contextualized through written communiqués, which are posted online, translated, and circulated globally. This book offers the first contemporary history of these post-millennial, digitally-mediated, insurrectionary anarchist networks, and seeks to locate this tendency within anti-state struggles from the past. Through an examination of thousands of movement documents, this book presents the discourse offered by clandestine, urban guerrillas fighting capitalism, the state, and the omnipresent forces of violence and coercion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781526114440
• ISBN-10: 1526114445
• Artikelnr.: 47877191

Autorenporträt

Michael Loadenthal is Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Justice at Miami University of Oxford, Ohio and Executive Director of the Peace and Justice Studies Association

Inhaltsangabe

1. Concerning method and the study of political violence 2. Insurrection as history from Guy Fawkes to black blocs 3. Insurrection as a post-millennial
clandestine
network of cells 4. Insurrection as warfare
terrorism and revolutionary design 5. Insurrection as theory
text
and strategy 6. Insurrection as values-driven theory and action 7. Insurrection as anti-securitization communication References Index