In this series of essays written over the last decade, AK Thompson offers a critical assessment of the analytical foundation underwriting contemporary social movement politics. Methodologically and conceptually influenced by Walter Benjamin, Thompson looks to visual culture, everyday life, and collective street actions as crystallizations of the logics saturating our culture of revolt. Through generative critique, creative conceptual development, and a consistent orientation toward identifying politically possibility, Premonitions lays the groundwork for social movement scholars and activists alike to develop a conceptual toolkit for moving beyond the mere existence of struggle as an end in itself.
Articles by Kate Siegfried
Kate Siegfried is a PhD Candidate and Distinguished Graduate Fellow studying Rhetoric & Public Affairs in the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University. Her research examines the communicative logics of political repression, as well as what theories of materialist rhetoric can offer contemporary liberation movements. Siegfried's recent work is published in Women's Studies in Communication (2019) as well as the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication (2018).