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What do riots have to do with logistics? A commonplace about riots concerns their lack of “organization,” a fact often provided to explain their lack of effect and endurance. Sustained and coherent events like the George Floyd Uprising in the summer of 2020 ask us to reconsider this cliché and reassess our understanding of organization itself. One axis of this reconsideration concerns the question of logistics, operating at every scale from looting a single store to capital’s global “logistics revolution” within and against which such rebellions take shape. In this discussion, our participants consider various aspects of “riot logistics,” from the local use of cars to the span of planetary supply chains, toward the understanding and development of tactics for contemporary political struggle.
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Sponsored by Mellon Sawyer Seminar in Contemporary Political Struggle, Davis Humanities Institute