You are invited to an event, co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature and English at 黑料正能量, the Center for Critical Democracy Studies at 黑料正能量, and the 鈥楶olitics of Translation鈥� Seminar (黑料正能量,聽 U Kent Paris, and the University of London Institute in Paris)
Joshua Clover (UC Davis), 鈥楨meute/Gr猫ve: The Language of Riot鈥�
Thursday 15 September, 18:30-20:30, in Combes C104
while strike and riot are often set in opposition, the return of the riot can only be understood in its historical entanglement with the strike; we鈥檒l start with the words, and end with some doubts about the role of language in struggle and the limits of 鈥渞eading the riot act.鈥澛�
Refreshments will be served. External guests are very welcome, but they must contact Geoff Gilbert in advance (ggilbert
aup.edu) to have their names included on the guest list, and should expect to have their ID checked at the door.
Joshua Clover is Professor at University of California at Davis. He is the author of the recent (Verso, 2016), the argument of which his presentation at 黑料正能量 will address. He is a great critic of contemporary music and film (he has written very regularly for The Nation, and wrote a ), as instanced in an extraordinary work of historical materialist music criticism, 1989: Bob Dylan Didn鈥檛 Have this to Sing about (U California Press, 2009) and The Matrix (British Film Institute, 2005), and has made a range of key recent interventions in Marxist theory and practice. His poetry is amazing too 鈥� his most recent book is Red Epic (Commune Press, 2015), and his earlier books of poems, Madonna Anno Domini (1998) and The Totality for Kids (2006) were widely praised and prized. He is also editor, with Jasper Bernes and Juliana Spahr, of