The Coming Insurrection

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

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

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

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

I discovered this book because of TikTok, of all places. Some random girl on my FYP gave it a glowing review, and I want to be cool, so I bought it. This book is a short, mostly enjoyable read that offers some good points mixed with a heavy dose of spicy, melodramatic language and anarchist idealism......more