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Jason Del Gandio is Assistant Professor at Temple University who teaches rhetoric and public advocacy. He is the author of Rhetoric for Radicals: A Handbook for 21st Century Activists. AK Thompson teaches social theory and is the author of Black Bloc, White Riot: Anti-Globalization and the Genealogy of Dissent.

• ForewordPeter Marcuse IntroductionJason Del Gandio and AK Thompson Section I: The Eros Effect 1. Remembering May ’68: An Interview with George KatsiaficasAK Thompson 2. Eros and RevolutionGeorge Katsiaficas 3. From Marcuse’s "Political Eros" to the Eros Effect: A Current StatementGeorge Katsiaficas Section II: Extensions and Elaborations 4. Eros in a One-Dimensional Society: Katsiaficas, Marcuse, and MeArnold L. Farr 5. Rethinking the Eros Effect: Sentience, Reality, and EmanationJason Del Gandio 6. Revolt as Reason, Reason as Revolt: On the Praxis of Philosophy from BelowRichard Gilman-Opalsky 7. The Eros Effect and the Embodied MindJack Hipp Section III: Case Studies 8. Kindling for the Spark: Eros and Emergent Consciousness in Occupy OaklandEmily Brissette and Mike King 9. Eros Effect as Emergency Politics: Empathy, Agency, and Network in South Korea’s Sewol Ferry DisasterGooyong Kim and Anat Schwartz 10. Climatology of the Eros Effect: Notes from the Japanese ArchipelagoSabu Kohso Section IV: Rejoinders 11. Feminism and the Eros EffectNina Power 12. Waves of Protest, the Eros Effect, and the Social Relations of DiffusionLesley Wood 13. Eros Effect or Biological Hatred?AK Thompson AfterwordDouglas Kellner ContributorsIndex