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.

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