Circulation-phase capitalism produces riots rather than strikes as its signature struggle

Evidence

In underscoring this relative dominance, Joshua Clover has characterized circulation phases as suborning a unique kind of political struggle: where production phases experience strikes, circulation phases experience riots, which are disruptive presencings often taking place at strategic points of transit (intersections, highways, airports, and shipping ports), as well as at places of commerce (retail districts, megastores, city centers). Circulation is fundamentally movement; political disruptions of it are often stoppages, blockades. Flow versus jam. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 419

Categorization

• XREF: Directly feeds the reader’s core thesis — circulation acceleration causing cultural form; pairs with her Jameson-read on economic phases and aesthetic politics. — connects to: Riots targeting shops reflect the collapse of the public, not mere consumerism — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1292; Riots express a failure of politics rather than being merely criminal — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1297; Riots can be political yet lack all goals or strategy — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2209
• SEED: A possible essay angle: contemporary protest aesthetics (blockades vs pickets, flow vs jam) mapped onto which economic phase is dominant.