Weekly Shaarli

All links of one week in a single page.

Week 50 (December 9, 2019)

'Riot. Strike. Riot': Joshua Clover's timely and audacious analysis - Chicago Tribune
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Riot is the recourse of surplus populations: both Marx's "industrial reserve army" and the lumpen, the excluded — those who are "chronically outside the formal wage, or 'structurally unemployed.' "

Raqqa Is ‘Uninhabitable’ After The Fall of ISIS | VICE on HBO - YouTube
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"VICE News' Isobel Yeung returns to Syria to tell the stories of the people who were caught in the crossfire between the most feared terror group on Earth and the U.S.-backed coalition, as they try to rebuild among the ruins"

The Dual Rise of the Yellow Vests and Macron’s Green Nationalism | Al Bawaba
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An interview with Joshua Clover (author of Riot. Strike. Riot) on the biopolitical turn toward eco-nationalism

Other People’s Blood by Benjamin Kunkel

If someone were to make a movie about neoliberalism, there would need to be a starring role for the character of Paul Volcker. As chair of the Federal Reserve from 1979 to 1987, Volcker was the most powerful central banker in the world. These were the years when the industrial workers’ movement was defeated in the United States and the United Kingdom, and third-world debt crises exploded. Both of these owe something to Volcker