The Coming Insurrection

The Invisible Committee

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French

Massachusetts Inst of Tec
15 May 2009

Cultural studies; Politics & government; Anarchism; Central government policies

Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series

"A call to arms by a group of French intellectuals that rejects leftist reform and aligns itself with younger, wilder forms of resistance.

Thirty years of ""crisis,"" mass unemployment, and flagging growth, and they still want us to believe in the economy... We have to see that the economy is itself the crisis. It's not that there's not enough work, it's that there is too much of it. The Coming Insurrection is an eloquent call to arms arising from the recent waves of social contestation in France and Europe. Written by the anonymous Invisible Committee in the vein of Guy Debord-and with comparable elegance-it has been proclaimed a manual for terrorism by the French government (who recently arrested its alleged authors). One of its members more adequately described the group as ""the name given to a collective voice bent on denouncing contemporary cynicism and reality."" The Coming Insurrection is a strategic prescription for an emergent war-machine capable of ""spreading anarchy and live communism."" Written in the wake of the riots that erupted throughout the Paris suburbs in the fall of 2005 and presaging more recent riots and general strikes in France and Greece, The Coming Insurrection articulates a rejection of the official Left and its reformist agenda, aligning itself instead with the younger, wilder forms of resistance that have emerged in Europe around recent struggles against immigration control and the ""war on terror."" Hot-wired to the movement of '77 in Italy, its preferred historical reference point, The Coming Insurrection formulates an ethics that takes as its starting point theft, sabotage, the refusal to work, and the elaboration of collective, self-organized life forms. It is a philosophical statement that addresses the growing number of those-in France, in the United States, and elsewhere-who refuse the idea that theory, politics, and life are separate realms."

By: The Invisible Committee
Imprint: Massachusetts Inst of Tec
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 1
Dimensions: Height: 178mm, Width: 114mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 136g
ISBN: 9781584350804
ISBN 10: 1584350806
Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series
Pages: 136
Publication Date: 15 May 2009
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

The Invisible Committee is a collective and anonymous penname.

Reviews for The Coming Insurrection

...without a doubt the most thought-provoking radical text to be published in the past ten years. It deserves to be read and discussed. -New Statesman Any book indirectly responsible for massive raids involving helicopters and anti-terrorist police, a splenetic Fox News broadcast and an impromptu book-reading at a Barnes & Noble book shop in New York (also attended by the police) must have something going for it. And so it is with The Coming Insurrection, the kind of political pamphlet last fashionable in the 17th century (and perhaps for a period in the 1960s and '70s). -Frieze Magazine * Reviews * For culture jammers, anarchists and malcontents everywhere, The Coming Insurrection is a bracing tonic-an elegant and inspiring call to arms. -Adbusters * Reviews * I am not calling for a ban on this book. It's important that you read this book. [...] And let me tell you something: Don't dismiss these people. Don't dismiss them. -Fox News * Reviews * This is quite possibly the most evil thing I've ever read. -Fox News * Reviews * ...without a doubt the most thought-provoking radical text to be published in the past ten years. It deserves to be read and discussed. -New Statesman * Reviews *