Bringing together a decade’s worth of AK Thompson’s essays on the culture of revolt,
Premonitions
offers an engaged and engaging assessment of contemporary radical politics. Inspired by the writings of Walter Benjamin, Thompson combines scholarship and grassroots grit to address themes ranging from violence and representation to Romanticism and death. Whether uncovering the unrealized promise buried in mainstream cultural offerings or tracing an imperiled course toward the moment of reckoning, the essays in
are provocations set to spark debate and kindle fires in the night.