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The Coming Insurrection (2007)

by Comité invisible(Favorite Author)

3.7 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1584350806 (ISBN13: 9781584350804)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Semiotext (E)

series

Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series

review 1: This is a call to action—a dissection of our capitalist society that demands a more active and thoughtful rejection of the structures we participate in every day. As a member of the “petty bourgeoise”—the middle-class without formal structure, complicit in culture’s disintegration from a society down into a network of consumers and producers—my resolution can only be to “revalorize the non-economic aspects of life.”We can define ourselves not by our “work”, consumption, or political performances—but by plundering, cultivating, and fabricating swatches of a new culture.
review 2: "It’s no longer in Paris that the most daring and consistent actions are carried out. To put it bluntly, Paris now stands out only as a target for raids, as a pu... morere terrain to be pillaged and ravaged. Brief and brutal incursions from the outside strike at the metropolitan flows at their point of maximum density. Rage streaks across this desert of fake abundance, then vanishes. A day will come when this capital and its horrible concretion of power will lie in majestic ruins, but it will be at the end of a process that will be far more advanced everywhere else.""In the subway, there’s no longer any trace of the screen of embarrassment that normally impedes the gestures of the passengers. Strangers make conversation without making passes. A band of comrades conferring on a street corner. Much larger assemblies on the boulevards, absorbed in discussions. Surprise attacks mounted in city after city, day after day. A new military barracks has been sacked and burned to the ground. The evicted residents of a building have stopped negotiating with the mayor’s office; they settle in. A company manager is inspired to blow away a handful of his colleagues in the middle of a meeting. There’s been a leak of files containing the personal addresses of all the cops, together with those of prison officials, causing an unprecedented wave of sudden relocations. We carry our surplus goods into the old village bar and grocery store, and take what we lack. Some of us stay long enough to discuss the general situation and figure out the hardware we need for the machine shop. The radio keeps the insurgents informed of the retreat of the government forces. A rocket has just breached a wall of the Clairvaux prison. Impossible to say if it has been months or years since the “events” began. And the prime minister seems very alone in his appeals for calm." less

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