Joshua Clover

 @bookofriot

Joshua Clover is a professor at the University of California, Davis, where he writes about poetry and economic crisis.

The Get Down

Diamond-Dust Baroque Diamond-Dust Baroque

The Get Down, Baz Luhrman’s fairy-tale remix of the birth of hip hop, offers a glimpse of the beginning of the end of US power.

Sep 15, 2016 / Pop & Circumstance / Joshua Clover

Ieshia Evans in Baton Rouge

A Tale of Two Pictures A Tale of Two Pictures

Black Lives Matter resists definition and is full of contradictions, but that’s where its power lies.

Aug 8, 2016 / Pop & Circumstance / Joshua Clover

The Purge: Election Year

The Liberal Catechism The Liberal Catechism

The allegory in the latest installment of The Purge is pretty clear: Election 2016.

Jul 8, 2016 / Pop & Circumstance / Joshua Clover

Everybody Wants Some!!

Chuffah Degree Zero Chuffah Degree Zero

Why has trivial conversation become essential in contemporary cinema?

Jun 7, 2016 / Joshua Clover

Purple Rain

A Violent Room A Violent Room

Why did the movie Purple Rain want or perhaps need to produce and reprise a particular fantasy of interraciality?

May 6, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover

The Wire

A Thin Line Between Love and Hate A Thin Line Between Love and Hate

When it comes to the police, there is one gaping difference between pop music and television.

Apr 5, 2016 / Joshua Clover

Get Information

Get Information Get Information

Beyoncé’s “Formation” reflects today’s movement from black rage toward a racialized revolutionary politics.

Mar 9, 2016 / Pop & Circumstance / Joshua Clover

Flyers posted on a college noticeboard at Yale University, November 12, 2015.

Speechbros, Concern Trolls, and the Free-Speech Fraud Speechbros, Concern Trolls, and the Free-Speech Fraud

The anger over ceaseless racial threats has entwined with the recognition of campus as one more zone of unfreedom.

Dec 17, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover

Abandoned newspaper vending machines, Covina, California, 2011.

Is Complicity Now the Entry Fee for Critique? Is Complicity Now the Entry Fee for Critique?

A new app brings clarity to an old situation: the collaboration between journalism and capitalism.

Oct 29, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover

Andy and Lana Wachowski. (Credit: Wikimedia)

The Truth Behind the Televised Lie The Truth Behind the Televised Lie

From the creators of The Matrix, the new Netflix show Sense8 inadvertently tells the saddest story in the world.

Oct 1, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover

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