An assessment of contemporary radical politics, inspired by the writings of Walter Benjamin and addressing themes from violence and representation to Romanticism and death.
An assessment of contemporary radical politics, inspired by the writings of Walter Benjamin and addressing themes from violence and representation to Romanticism and death.
AK Thompson is an activist, author, and social theorist. Currently a professor of social movements and social change at Ithaca College, his publications include Sociology for Changing the World: Social Movements/Social Research (2006), Black Bloc, White Riot: Anti-Globalization and the Genealogy of Dissent (2010), Spontaneous Combustion: The Eros Effect and Global Revolution (2017) and co-edited Keywords for Radicals: The Contested Vocabulary of Late-Capitalist Struggle (2016). Between 2005 and 2012, he served on the Editorial Committee of Upping the Anti: A Journal of Theory and Action.
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Foreword Introduction……………………………………………... 7 I: Catastrophe Chris Hedges Vs. CrimethInc…………………………… 22 Did Someone Say Riot?.................................................... 28 Making Friends With Failure…………………………… 51 "Daily Life" Not A "Moment" Like the Rest…………… 68 II: The Critical Moment Waging War on Valentines Day………………………… 87 The Resonance of Romanticism………………………… 94 Co-opting Capitalism: Avatar and the Thing Itself.……. 127 Matter's Most Modern Configurations………………… 148 III: Progress Obituary in Absentia…………………………………… 174 Occupation, Decolonization, and Reciprocal Violence... 179 The Work of Violence in the Age of Repressive Desublimation………………................... 201 The Battle for Necropolis………………………………. 221 Index
Foreword Introduction……………………………………………... 7 I: Catastrophe Chris Hedges Vs. CrimethInc…………………………… 22 Did Someone Say Riot?.................................................... 28 Making Friends With Failure…………………………… 51 "Daily Life" Not A "Moment" Like the Rest…………… 68 II: The Critical Moment Waging War on Valentines Day………………………… 87 The Resonance of Romanticism………………………… 94 Co-opting Capitalism: Avatar and the Thing Itself.……. 127 Matter's Most Modern Configurations………………… 148 III: Progress Obituary in Absentia…………………………………… 174 Occupation, Decolonization, and Reciprocal Violence... 179 The Work of Violence in the Age of Repressive Desublimation………………................... 201 The Battle for Necropolis………………………………. 221 Index
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