The Invisible Committee: The Coming Insurrection (2007–) [FR, EN, ES]

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Hot-wired to the movement of ’77 in Italy, its preferred historical reference point, The Coming Insurrection formulates an ethics that takes as its starting point theft, sabotage, the refusal to work, and the elaboration of collective,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

French edition
Publisher Editions La Fabrique, Paris, 2007

English edition
Publisher Semiotext(e), 2009
Intervention series, 1
ISBN 1584350806, 9781584350804
136 pages

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L’insurrection qui vient (French, 2007, updated on 2017-6-26)
The Coming Insurrection (English, 2009, updated on 2017-6-26)
La insurrección que viene (Spanish, undated, added on 2013-9-26)

SubStance journal 112: Italian Post-Workerist Thought (2007)

SubStance is an interdisciplinary journal for discourses converging upon literature from a variety of fields, including philosophy, the social science, science, and the arts.

Issue 112 (Volume 36, Number 1), 2007
Special Issue: Italian Post-Workerist Thought
Edited by: Max Henninger, Giuseppina Mecchia, and Timothy S. Murphy

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Alain Badiou: The Century (2005–)

“Everywhere, the twentieth century has been judged and condemned: the century of totalitarian terror, of utopian and criminal ideologies, of empty illusions, of genocides, of false avant-gardes, of democratic realism everywhere replaced by abstraction.

It is not Badiou’s wish to plead for an accused that is perfectly capable of defending itself without the authors aid. Nor does he seek to proclaim, like Frantz, the hero of Sartre’s Prisoners of Altona, ‘I have taken the century on my shoulders and I have said: I will answer for it!’ The Century simply aims to examine what this accursed century, from within its own unfolding, said that it was. Badiou’s proposal is to reopen the dossier on the century – not from the angle of those wise and sated judges we too often claim to be, but from the standpoint of the century itself.”

First published as Le Siècle, 2005.

Translated, with a Commentary and Notes by Alberto Toscano
Publisher Polity, 2007
ISBN 0745636314, 9780745636313
233 pages

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