![]() Now we have some guidelines for the new and ongoing impropriety that fleshes forth and fleshes out our optimal condition." -Fred Moten, scholar, activist, poet and author of In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition and The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study "In its sweep, rigor, and elegance, Riot. Joshua Clover says riot deserves a proper theory but here-sly, stone cold-he gives us more than that. It's just that riot makes new ways of seeing what theory can and can't do and imposes upon us a kind of knowledge of our own embarrassing and already given resources of enjoyment. It's not that the raging, ragged entrance to the new golden age is the new golden age. But then this conception folds tightly yet disorderly into a new and open set of questions. writes with precision and loads of personality, weaving between global politics and musical genres (rave, hip-hop, grunge) with a fan's intensity." - Time Out New York, "Riot, in this absolutely necessary book, is considered as differential procedure and rigorous improvisational method, as essential repertoire on the way from general malaise to general strike. makes a valuable contribution to the efforts of all those who believe in music's importance to our lives." - Journal Of Popular Music "Music and politics, drugs and society prove to be eerily congruent, and Clover's tough analysis dismantles prevailing myths while revealing even stranger truths." -Luc Sante, author of Low Life Mother Jones "Clover is a deeply learned and hugely enthusiastic student of popular music his readings of songs are astute, witty, and unflappable, and each works in a larger argument." - Bookslut "Offers a powerful framework through which pop history can be explored." - Times Higher Education Supplement "Rewardingly ambitious. It's the smaller discoveries along the way that make 1989 worth your time." - Bookforum "The book. ![]() ![]() Rich with historical and musical insight. vivid snapshot of a tumultuous moment in pop and history." - Foreword Magazine "Up close, Clover's analysis is interesting and occasionally brilliant. ![]() Clover is a gifted music writer, and his descriptions are vivid, surprising and politically sharp without ever being moralistic." - Owen Hatherley "Astute. Masterful." - The Progressive " is an academic book, but also one that fans of politics and pop culture would savor." -Carlo Wolff, Boston Globe " extraordinary work of political aesthetics. Praise for Clover's previous works: " dense, provocative, wonderfully written little book. As social unrest against an unsustainable order continues to grow, this valuable history will help guide future antagonists in their struggles toward a revolutionary horizon. Historical events such as the global economic crisis of 1973 and the decline of organized labor, viewed from the perspective of vast social transformations, are the proper context for understanding these eruptions of discontent. From early wage demands to recent social justice campaigns pursued through occupations and blockades, Clover connects these protests to the upheavals of a sclerotic economy in a state of moral collapse. It returned to prominence in the 1970s, profoundly changed along with the coordinates of race and class. Rioting was the central form of protest in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and was supplanted by the strike in the early nineteenth century. Award-winning poet and scholar Joshua Clover offers a new understanding of this present moment and its history. Ours has become an "age of riots" as the struggle of people versus state and capital has taken to the streets. Award winning poet Joshua Clover theorises the riot as the form of the coming insurrection Baltimore.
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