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THE COMING INSURRECTION PDF, EPUB, EBOOK The Invisible Committee | 136 pages | 31 Aug 2009 | AUTONOMEDIA | 9781584350804 | English | New York, United States The Coming Insurrection PDF Book We must decide upon the undecidable, and abandon ourselves and our world at present, devoid of presence, by altering everything. We still need to find the means to permanently destroy computerized databases. The ethics of exclusion begins with excluding yourself. The process of cocooning is not going away, it is merely being put into motion. As poetic indictment of contemporary living it's very elegant and astute; as political program -- insofar as its rather romantic elaboration of communes could be said to constitute one -- it's suggestive at best, naive at worst. The unmanned drone that flew over Seine-Saint-Denis last July 14 th — as the police later confirmed — presents a much more vivid image of the future than all the fuzzy humanistic projections. How did they g There are those among us whose goal is to disrupt and decompose civilization as we know it. Power is no longer concentrated in one point in the world; it is the world itself, its flows and its avenues, its people and its norms, its codes and its technologies. The radio keeps the insurgents informed of the retreat of the government forces. There are plenty of otaku in Japan, frohe Arbeitslose in Germany and workaholics in Andalusia. Our words from hence forward will no longer deconstruct, but serve as our restoration. Everyone can testify to the rations of sadness condensed from year to year in family gatherings, the forced smiles, the awkwardness of seeing everyone pretending in vain, the feeling that a corpse is lying there on the table, and everyone acting as though it were nothing. The internet is supposed to survive a nuclear attack. Some reviewers here have already said it and quite well. Our appearance as a force must be pushed back until the opportune moment. Los Angeles, CA: Semiotext e. His hatred of foreigners is based on his hatred of himself as a foreigner. A disintegrated society survives by propagating an epidemic of sociability and entertainment. Jul 20, Ben rated it liked it. The police and philosophy are two convergent, if formally distinct, means to this end. Where retired people still tell you about their failure, forty years earlier, in such and such an exam, and how it screwed up their whole career, their whole life. Read these chapters and you may be horrified but also enlightened or you may simply throw the book away in disgust as a devout Christian might throw away Lavey's 'Satanic Bible'. Apr 03, Myles rated it did not like it. There is much in the detail to disagree with, but although quite a bit of it is drawing on the specific characteristics of the French context there is also much to provoke, challenge, inspire new ways to thinking and acting. The rule is simple: the more territories there are superimposed on a given zone, the more circulation there is between them, the harder it will be for power to get a handle on them. Taxation and reinvestment if not welfare redistribution seem like more useful vehicles than firebombs and shoplifting in the long run. It will thank you for it. The commune needs money, but not because we need to earn a living. There are also some laughable misapprehensions about some of the 'structures of feeling' that exist outside of the French milieu that cast some doubt on the authors' grasp of the conditions on the ground outside of the borders of la belle France. Brief and brutal incursions from the outside strike at the metropolitan flows at their point of maximum density. In terms of thought, this work is a bit too irresponsible - for despite what it suggests, anonymity does not dissolve responsibility, it only displaces it. An utter piece of trash. Close Table of Contents. Assembling corresponds to the joy of feeling a common power. This booklet pages is disturbing and sad. The territory will be partitioned into ever more restricted zones. Simply put, the control of the few should be broken by abandoning their values, destroying "their" economy destroying the means of production and exchange , opposing all government, committing anonymous criminal and violent acts on a small scale until the opportunity to riot and burn on a larger scale comes. In Beijing, the hutongs surrounding the Forbidden City were demolished, replaced by fake versions, placed a little farther out, on display for sightseers. Well, communes. That is what the French anti-CPE protestors understood in when they shut down the universities with a view toward shutting down the entire economy. Thus, wherever the economy is blocked and the police are neutralized, it is important to invest as little pathos as possible in overthrowing the authorities. A commune tends by its nature towards self-sufficiency and considers money, internally, as something foolish and ultimately out of place. Certainly, the authors of this text are doing that traditional French thing of revelling in their own intellectual abilities and command of language - these are people who have read their Foucault - but there is no sign that they actually understand the workings of power. Fox News The brutal activity of power today consists both in administering this ruin while at the same time establishing the framework for a 'new economy'" " There is no 'environmental catastrophe'. The Coming Insurrection Writer Where is our prophet of immediacy? The bulk of the book appears, despite its claims to come from 'The Invisible Committee', to be drafted primarily by one highly creative and rather witty voice but the impulse here is precisely that fuelling riots in Athens on the one side and the laying of A remarkable book - the best recent expression to date of the 'rage against the machine' that has been emerging for some time at the margins of European life. The book itself is writting poorly more like someone who feels they are better than everyone else. His hatred of foreigners is based on his hatred of himself as a foreigner. In France, civilization is inseparable from the state. The brutal activity of power today consists both in administering this ruin while at the same time establishing the framework for a 'new economy'" " There is no 'environmental catastrophe'. The city centers of the metropolis are not clones of themselves, but offer instead their own auras; we glide from one to the next, selecting this one and rejecting that one, to the tune of a kind of existential shopping trip among different styles of bars, people, designs, or playlists. Fox News. Apr 03, Myles rated it did not like it. To go on waiting is madness. I also find it hard to trust anyone who thinks socialism and scamming the government are the answers to all the world's problems. View all 6 comments. Yet it must be made secure. On the margins of this workforce that is effective and necessary for the functioning of the machine, is a growing majority that has become superfluous, that is certainly useful to the flow of production but not much else, which introduces the risk that, in its idleness, it will set about sabotaging the machine. We know it and so do the powers that be It is hard for a country which created, out of nothing, the ideological framework of nationalism and which exported it to the whole world to recognize that all that remains of it now is a document to be filed in the historical archives. Basically, the argument "The Invisible Committee" is making is that work sucks, and we shouldn't have to do it disregarding the fact that many people quite like their careers and would find life utterly boring without them. When the army is in the street, we have an insurrectionary situation. You can see the dogmatism of constant questioning give its complicit wink of the eye everywhere in the universities and among the literary intelligentsias. Ours is the master race; ours is the empty set; we built a social network and no one came. Frankl que ponen de manifiesto nuestro deseo inconsciente de descubrir un sentido definitivo a la vida, tanto si deriva de una fuente espiritual como si proviene de otro Want to Read Currently Reading Read. The new economy cannot be established without a similar screening of subjects and zones singled out for transformation. And since I don't know my European history, it references many things that required extensive research to fully understand. Many different profiles can be found among the arrested, with little that unites them besides a hatred for existing society — not class, race, or even neighborhood. Power is no longer concentrated in one point in the world; it is the world itself, its flows and its avenues, its people and its norms, its codes and its technologies. Literary circles exist to smother the clarity of writing. Nor do they appear to have learned anything from history or show any sign that they could match the ability of the Zapatistas or even Hamas to manage the instruments of late capitalism, such as the media, to survive, prosper and serve their communities. On the one hand, ghosts are brought to life, and on the other, the living are left to die. Read more But the real problem with society isn't the need to destroy the productive order, but to alter the order of distribution. Equal parts police surveillance and enchantement! What surrounds us is no longer a landscape, a panorama, a theater, but something to inhabit, something we need to come to terms with, something we can learn from.

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