Nonviolence ain't what it used to be. A guide to today's forms of political struggle.

IntroductionPart I1.0 Neoliberal Exigences 1.1 Managed Dissent: Indirect Rule, Consumerism, and the NPIC 1.1a Political Institutionalization of Dissent 1.1b Indirect Rule 1.1c Consumerism 1.1d Institutionalized Dissent as "Civil Society" 1.2 Policing as a Non-Tangential Exigency 1.3 From Masses to Publics 1.3a Why Elizabeth Eckford is Still Alive 1.3b We Are the 94% 1.3c Hannah Arendt and the Direct Demos Part II2.0 The Strange Magic of Nonviolence 2.1 Introduction: What Happened to Nonviolence? 2.2 The Nonopposition of Non/Violence 2.3 Disavowal by Non/Definition 2.4 Condemnatory Equivalizing 2.5 Nonviolence as a Strategy of Condescension 2.6 Nonviolence as Conflict Aversion Part III 3.0 The Eloquence of Targeted Property Destruction 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Forced Comparison 3.3 Desubjectification 3.4 Profanation Part IV 4.0 The Eloquence of Police Clashes4.1 Disidentification 4.2 Disinvestment 4.3 Empowering Reversal 4.4 Backlighting Part V 5.0 The Characteristics of Movements to Come 5.1 Who (and How) Was Occupy? 5.1a Who (And Which) are The People? 5.1b Topics and their Publics 5.2 After Victimhood, Beyond Innocence 5.2a After Victimhood 5.2b Beyond Innocence 5.3 Agency and Possibility in Defigurative Politics 5.3a Semiotic Transgression Index