In his 2016 book, American poet and scholar Joshua Clover responds to the increase of uprisings globally with a theory of riots.

We are living in a time of permanent crisis.

With rising poverty and unemployment, increased surveillance and police brutality, and the impacts of the climate crisis, protests are becoming common around the globe.

Joshua Clover is an American poet and scholar known for his work in critical theory, contemporary poetry, and political activism.

In his 2016 book Riot. Strike. Riot, Clover offers a theory and historical overview of riots in order to understand political upheaval both today and in the future.