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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. It speaks some important truths, but offers only nonsensical solutions. Much larger assemblies on the boulevards, absorbed in discussions. What remains to come is the proliferation of insurrectionary responses - the active affect of our affectation in the midst of this collapsing socius - as a negation that opens the possibility for a coming community. With their starting point being that the economy and environment are not in crisis but are the crisis, the Invisible Committee have developed one of the more interesting manifestos we have to help develop and build new politics, but we need to make sure we read it with full attention to the nuances and subtleties implied by their tactical proposals. Uploaded by snowballp on February 17, Such mobility only ever means uprootedness, isolation, exile. Well, here it is! Retrieved January 4, Defeat consists as much in losing the war as in losing the choice of which war to wage. Since all human behavior, from the most ordinary to the most learned, is based on a foundation of unevenly formulated presuppositions, and since all practices start from a point where things and their representations can no longer be distinguished, a dose of truth that the Western concept knows nothing about enters into every life. For communes, the question of work is only posed in relation to other already existing incomes. Distributed for Semiotext e. Supple, subtle, but vulnerable. The goal of any insurrection is to become irreversible. The manner given to envisioning the coming insurrection is abstract enough to benefit multiple types of peoples and ideologies. Tracking, transparency, certification, eco-taxes, environmental excellence, and the policing of water, all give us an idea of the coming state of ecological emergency. The Coming Insurrection Reviews

To the extent that it grows and radiates, a commune begins to see the operations of power target that which constitutes it. Uploaded by snowballp on February 17, For generations we were disciplined, pacified and made into subjects , productive by nature and content to consume. Through the text it is suggested that it is the fact that our economic activity serves to perpetuate the power and wealth of the few. Or else total submission to it. Ours is the master race; ours is the empty set; we built a social network and no one came. Fox News And the compost is favourable in France, weak power, poverty, unemployment and this strange third industrial revolution with a weak growth and perhaps a secular stagnation. The Coming Insurrection. The uprising of Algerian youth that erupted across all of Kabylia in the spring of managed to take over almost the entire territory, attacking police stations, courthouses and every representation of the state, generalizing the revolt to the point of compelling the unilateral retreat of the forces of order and physically preventing the elections. 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. It is kind of a pep rally for wannabe revolutionaries. Friend Reviews. Go to Germany, to the United States, to Japan. The practical abolition of money will happen only with the extension of communes. In spite of occasionally strong-armed attempts to evacuate the area, in spite of white supremacist lynch mobs, a lot of people refused to leave the terrain. We are told that the environment has the incomparable merit of being the first truly global problem presented to humanity. Notice how the Occupy camps have been cleared from every city. What am I? The first seven chapters talk about everything that's wrong in the world. The movement against the CPE witnessed the recurrent return of the Molotov cocktail. Thus it should come as no surprise that in their deliriums psychiatric patients are always confusing themselves with political figures, that we agree that our leaders are the root of all our ills, that we like to grumble so much about them and that this grumbling is the consecration that crowns them as our masters. As the Invisible Committee was made up, obviously, of more than one individual writing - we needed to be in a group of at least three writers, writing simultaneously once launched with a topic that we then cobbled together into our manifesto. 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. This book is a guide of trying to live on the fringes of the dissent and the importance of staying ahead of the powers that be if one doesn't want to just be safely co-opted. There are no reviews yet. It is popular among anarchists as an expression of their thought and methods. A relationship to the world where there is me and then my environment, surrounding me but never really constituting me. But the metropolis also produces the means of its own destruction. Nothing can make it an attractive prospect to wipe the asses of pensioners for minimum wage. Jul 11, Max Renn rated it it was amazing.

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What about civillians that are ignorant? Beta Nu Publishing. 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 flowers at the home of attempted cop-killer Raoul Moat in Newcastle on the other. Armed conflict is only a moment in its constant reconfiguration. Visits in person are more secure, leave no trace, and forge much more consistent connections than any list of contacts on the internet. An angry rant, though historically and socially significant. These events serve as examples both of breakdown in the modern, conventional social order, and at the same time of the capacity of human beings to spontaneously self-organize for revolutionary ends, which taken together can give rise to partial insurrectionary situations. Meanwhile, social relations are also hollowed out by capitalism transactional couple- relationships of convenience, perhaps for career advancement, "work buddies" as opposed to true friendships , etc. Tied in every way to places, sufferings, ancestors, friends, loves, events, languages, memories, to all kinds of things that obviously are not me. 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. The metropolis is a terrain of constant low-intensity conflict, in which the taking of Basra, Mogadishu, or Nablus mark points of culmination. The book is divided into two halves. The last three give tips on how to insurrect in your town. Our speech becomes the voice of human beings between whom the barriers have fallen. Having the initiative helps. And they will fill up that cup, and slap a FairTrade sticker on it so that we may accept it back with gratitude and easy conscience before we slink behind the white pickett fence of irony and misplaced nostalgia we picked up off craigslist for, like, super cheap. For a long time, the city was a place for the military to avoid, or if anything, to besiege; but the metropolis is perfectly compatible with war. It is for us the ideal condition for a wild, massive experimentation with new arrangements, new fidelities. We aren't cynical, we are just unwilling to be deceived The effectiveness of the police during the last anti-CPE demonstrations was a result of plainclothes officers mixing among us and waiting for an incident before revealing who they are: gas, nightsticks, tazers, detainment; all in strict coordination with demonstration stewards. This is accompanied by a continual raising of the standards of security, hygiene, control, and culture, and by an accelerated recycling of fashions, all of which establish the need for such services. Nothing appears less likely than an insurrection, but nothing is more necessary. Who works where they live? Anonymity is to be held onto for as long as possible, while the communes' strength grows. View all 7 comments. In fact, every insurrectional process starts from a truth that we refuse to give up. Fuck you. On the one hand, people with mandates are by definition hindered in their actions, on the other hand, nothing hinders them from deceiving everyone. Whereas ATTAC tried to save economics as a science with its popular education courses, degrowth preserves the economic as a morality. In Genoa we saw a thousand determined people push back entire buses full of carabinieri , then set their vehicles on fire. Namespaces Article Talk. A government that declares a state of emergency against fifteen-year-old kids. Sixty years of pacification and containment of historical upheavals, sixty years of democratic anesthesia and the management of events, have dulled our perception of the real, our sense of the war in progress. We carry our surplus goods into the old village bar and grocery store, and take what we lack. From flirtation to divorce, from cohabitation to stepfamilies, everyone feels the inanity of the sad family nucleus, but most seem to believe that it would be sadder still to renounce it. In a demonstration, a union member tears the mask off of an anonymous person who has just broken a window. Our eyes are turned toward Camus as we hack away at the frozen oceans within us to find our invincible summer, the spring of our awakening. Frankl que ponen This essay is more a poetic indictment of post-industrial civilization than an advocation of a coherent political program. Will they meet? Lists with This Book. In the final two critical spaces they point to the problem of treating ecological and environmental struggles as a separate sphere and the need for a global political outlook. Readers also enjoyed. Jul 11, Max Renn rated it it was amazing. The world economy and, according to the author s , the world's contempt for it specifically the world bank and IMF are discussed. They could be here as much as anywhere else. But these are not addressed. Be the first to ask a question about The Coming Insurrection.

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