The Coming Insurrection

(Semiotext(e) Intervention Series #1)

Paperback, 136 pages

English language

Published May 14, 2009 by Semiotext(e).

ISBN:
9781584350804
OCLC Number:
1203355595
Goodreads:
6447374

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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 …

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Subjects

  • Anarchism
  • Insurgency
  • World politics -- Forecasting
  • World politics
  • Political science
  • Politics, Practical
  • Crisis management
  • Economics