Circulation-phase capitalism provokes riots and blockades rather than strikes.

Evidence

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. See Clover, Riot, Strike, Riot. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 419

Categorization

• SEED: The ‘flow versus jam’ dialectic is a powerful framing for an essay on how political agency in our era takes the form of clogging rather than withholding labor.
• XREF: Clover’s production-versus-circulation distinction directly maps onto Kornbluh’s thesis that circulation is the material base of the immediacy style. — 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the collapse of the public, not mere consumerism — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1292; Riots express a failure of politics rather than being merely criminal — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1297