Riot. Strike. Riot: The New Era of Uprisings (Verso, 2016) is by Joshua Clover, English professor and award-winning poet. Clover theorizes the riot as the form of the coming insurrection in his new book. Examining uprisings in Baltimore, Ferguson, Oakland and other places he proposes that we are in an “age of riots” as the struggle of people versus state and capital has taken to the streets. 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.

Joshua Clover teaches critical and political theory in the departments of English and Comparative Literature. He is affiliated faculty in French and Italian Department, Cultural Studies, Film Studies Program and the Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory. He is the Director of the Marxist Institute for Research. He has contributed articles to journals from Representations to Critical Inquiry. Forthcoming work focuses on forms and trajectories of liberatory struggle within the two constraints that are the end of capitalist growth and catastrophic climate collapse. 

He has also published three books of poetry, most recently Red Epic; been translated into a dozen languages; and appears in many anthologies including the Norton Introduction to Literature. 

View the book at Verso Books