The Coming Insurrection, The Invisible Committee
The Coming Insurrection, The Invisible Committee
1 Rating(s)
List: $28.99 | Sale: $20.29
Club: $14.49

The Coming Insurrection

Author: The Invisible Committee

Narrator: Christopher Lane

Unabridged: 3 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 05/14/2010


Synopsis

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 Hot-wired to the movement of '77 in Italy, its preferred historical reference point, The Coming Insurrection formulates an ethics that takes as its starting point theft, sabotage, the refusal to work, and the elaboration of collective,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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Greg

Five fucking stars. With reservations. This book says some very unpopular things that happen to be very true. You will most likely disagree with me on this. The book is essentially a stituationist manifesto for the present day. It's a book that has seen the bullshit that the sixties produced, the ha......more

Goodreads review by John

Finished at last. In review of this inflamatory little tract, let me start off with some background. The Coming Insurrection has gained traction thanks to two readership groups. It is popular among anarchists as an expression of their thought and methods. It has also gained readership among the Amer......more

Goodreads review by Max

Some reviewers here have already said it and quite well. This is a situationist tract for the 21st century and it is less a plan or handbook than it is a sort of clear-eyed meditation. Think Hakim Bey's T.A.Z. shorn of its mysticism or the Unabomber manifesto written by someone who believes there is......more

Goodreads review by Tim

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. This is an intellectual version of a rage that is usually focused on direct action. The bulk of the book appears, despite its claims to come......more