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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