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The Coming Insurrection (Semiotext(e) / Intervention) |  | Author: The Invisible Committee
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
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Pages: 136
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Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.4 x 0.4
ISBN: 1584350806
Dewey Decimal Number: 320
EAN: 9781584350804
ASIN: 1584350806
Publication Date: August 31, 2009
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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.
—from The Coming Insurrection
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 to "spread 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Hot-wired to the movement of '77 in Italy, its preferred historical reference point, The Coming Insurrection formulates an ethics that takes as its starting point theft, sabotage, the refusal to work, and the elaboration of collective,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 forms-of-life. 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.
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 The Coming of the Naive, Insane, Childish Revolution April 27, 2010
Cato (NC USA)
32 out of 47 found this review helpful
French communists have never really been appealing to my sensibilities. However, the Coming Insurrection opens a window to the despair and corruption of the human condition harnessed by life in a socialists state. Appealing to the worst instincts of enlightenment, personal respomnsibility and the virtue of merit, the authors of this tome can only appeal to a corrupt juvinile mind. Thinking they build their case step-by-step, they take us to their world of childish whining and fantasy. Most people leave this world behind before they gradute to the real world of hard work, building their character and reputation as a person of integrity that people admire and their future children justly proud. The authors take the path more-or-less taken in todays standard, sustaining their childish notion of every person must be equal without needing to have equal responsiblity to the society which they helped create but nopw heap abuse. The future world depicted does not serve as a constructive example of global problem solving. Instead, the future-world depicted is created solely to satisfy their egos by finding fault without offering realistic solutions. Everyone in their world is equal. They are all equally depraved and lazy, stealing and appropriating for their wherewithall, formenting anarchy in their own contemptible leisurely timetable. Very French . . . very European!
This book could have been ghostwritten for Hugo Chavez. In his (and the author's# world, society should rack up accomplishment on top of accomplishment and compound success and opportunity until a decision is made that the sweat of the toil of humanity is now yours. Sadly, it is not rightly theirs. An interesting window into the world of the mordant thoughts of lazy, juvenile, dillusional French Communists. I cannot really take the words of the authors seriously. They #the authors)appear to be too lazy to actually take their insane plans to actual action against those they percieve as being their oppressors. Not as eloquent as "Mein Kamph" nor as substantive as "The Communist Manifesto". The "Committee" show themselves to be idiots in the first degree.
I recommend this short paperback (love it) as a window into how a nation of liberty can devolve into a sytemic terror if we do not begin to recognize the obvious threats crazy people like these French Communists and the American Communialists (read "regime") pose.
Breaking Through the Illusions July 3, 2010
Mark S. Deneen (Ferndale, Ca)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is not an easy work to review because there are two possible audiences. First, the people who are already outside the TV induced illusion of modern capitalist life will easily understand this work, and revel in the spontaneous, youthful enthusiasm of the authors who are seeking to put life on a genuine human track. Secondly, everyone else who is still sleepwalking through the TV induced trance where politics is going to be some kind of salvation are simply never going to understand this work, but they ought to.
To the first audience, the refreshing part of this work is that it lays to rest all the leftist intelligentsia's impotency over the past 60 years. It simply dispenses with all that useless progressive theorising that always ends up in political waste bins. The work immediately recognises that capitalism has become the water the world swims in, the disaster we are riding out. It begins with the assumption that there is no political solution, but only direct action. This ought to be thrilling for young people sick to death of watching "Obama-Clinton style politics" ooze over mankind like a plague. For the old hippies, and comfortably stagnating boomers and hippies, this work can breath new life into your old ideals.
For the second audience - the group lying in a permanent vegetative TV induced stupor you will fear the ideas here, and persecute the authors, but this is the one work that might actually break your coma and awaken you to reality.
Capitalism has ransacked and co-opted every political system in the west. What is left are just rubber handles in phony voting booths not connected to anything. There are no parties, no ideologies, no candidates, no reforms, no elections, no legislation which is ever going to restore humanity. It is up to you to restore your piece, and that is the simple overriding message of this work. The revolution is you taking your direct action. Not writing a check to another NGO to save the whales, the children, the environment, the rainforests, the food seeds. Not campaigning or carrying signs, or registering more voters, or signing up for email alerts, or joining another club or watching even another second of TV. The revolution is you taking immediate, even independent action. You are the spark, literally.
You can't help but to feel inspired and motivated upon reading this work. Yes, it is short - and so it's form is caricature, and used very effectively. Just like the sidewalk artist produces those humorous - and yet totally recognisable - crayon caricatures in 5 minutes by grossly emphasising key features, so too this work quickly and easily makes the deadening features of modern state capitalism easy to identify. This work masterfully illuminates the difference between "life work" and "wage paying jobs." Pay no attention to the negative reviewers here who are so deeply asleep in illusion that they can not see such a difference even when it is caricaturised to larger than life size. This work has nothing whatsoever to do with lazy people, drug use, people who don't want to work, or people with no ambition. That pejorative chatter is by people who have no clue as to how they ended they life in a wage-job trying to earn their "living" (right to a life).
Our normal media drenched world is flooded, overrun, drenched in capitalist propaganda from Glenn Beck to Thomas Friedman running right to left and everywhere in between. The difference between FOXNews and the NYT is the thickness of a human hair. Here is an opportunity to jump clear out of that sewer water and take a taste of real waking humanity seeking to break free.
The Coming Insurrection June 28, 2010
GailMBA
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Scary prediction of what is happening in France, which could easily come to America if we abandon our founding fathers' principles. If you have studied history/philosophy and are familiar with anything translated from French to English this short book will inform you as to European trends. A very important read for current political/social events!
Why all the bad reviews? April 14, 2010
Barry Floyd (New Jersey, USA)
9 out of 16 found this review helpful
Based on the comments of those who don't like this book, others could rightly proclaim that the book hits the nail on the head!
The time is coming.. sooner than you think.
Perfect Picture February 6, 2010
E. Johnson
43 out of 74 found this review helpful
I love this book because it shows us where the far left's head is at. These people are empty inside with no moral compass. This is what happens in a socialize world where people have the intellectual capacity for greatness but are confined by government. If you want to know who/what the far left is and is willing to do. This the book for you. It makes the argument for why these people need to be dealt with strongly.
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