Bringing together a decade’s worth of AK Thompson’s essays on the culture of revolt, Premonitions offers an engaged and engaging assessment of contemporary radical politics. Inspired by the writings of Walter Benjamin, Thompson combines scholarship and grassroots grit to address themes ranging from violence and representation to Romanticism and death. Whether uncovering the unrealized promise buried in mainstream cultural offerings or tracing an imperiled course toward the moment of reckoning, the essays in Premonitions are provocations set to spark debate and kindle fires in the night.
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Foreword
Introduction……………………………………………… 7
I: Catastrophe
Chris Hedges Vs. Crimeth Inc…………………………… 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
Over de auteur
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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