Tiqqun: This Is Not a Program (2001/2011)
Filed under book | Tags: · biopolitics, capitalism, critique, critique of technology, cybernetics, resistance, surveillance

“Traditional lines of revolutionary struggle no longer hold. Rather, it is ubiquitous cybernetics, surveillance, and terror that create the illusion of difference within hegemony. Configurations of dissent and the rhetoric of revolution are merely the other face of capital, conforming identities to empty predicates, ensuring that even ‘thieves,’ ‘saboteurs,’ and ‘terrorists’ no longer exceed the totalizing space of Empire. This Is Not a Program offers two texts, both originally published in French by Tiqqun with Introduction to Civil War in 2001. In This Is Not a Program, Tiqqun outlines a new path for resistance and struggle in the age of Empire, one that eschews the worn-out example of France’s May ‘68 in favor of what they consider to be the still fruitful and contemporary insurrectionary movements in Italy of the 1970s. ‘As a Science of Apparatuses’ examines the way Empire has enforced on the subject a veritable metaphysics of isolation and pacification, “apparatuses” that include chairs, desks, computers; surveillance (security guards, cameras); disease (depression); crutch (cell phone, lover, sedative); and authority.
Tiqqun’s critique of the biopolitical subject and omnipresent Empire is all the more urgent as we become inured to the permanent state of exception that is the War on Terror and to other, no less intimate forms of pacification. But all is not lost. In its unrelenting production of the Same, Empire itself creates the conditions necessary for the insurrection to come.”
Originally published by Editions La Fabrique in 2009. Earlier published in issue 2 of Tiqqun (2001).
Translated by Joshua David Jordan
Publisher Semiotext(e), 2011
Intervention series, 7
ISBN 1584350970, 9781584350972
215 pages
PDF (updated on 2017-6-26)
Comment (1)Bernard Cache: Earth Moves: The Furnishing of Territories (1995)
Filed under book | Tags: · abstract art, architecture, art, deconstruction, image, space, urbanism

Earth Moves, Bernard Cache’s first major work, conceptualizes a series of architectural images as vehicles for two important developments. First, he offers a new understanding of the architectural image itself. Following Gilles Deleuze and Henri Bergson, he develops an account of the image that is nonrepresentational and constructive—images as constituents of a primary, image world, of which subjectivity itself is a special kind of image. Second, Cache redefines architecture beyond building proper to include cinematic, pictoral, and other framings.
Complementary to this classification, Cache offers what is to date the only Deleuzean architectural development of the “fold,” a form and concept that has become important over the last few years. For Cache, as for Deleuze, what is significant about the fold is that it provides a way to rethink the relationship between interior and exterior, between past and present, and between architecture and the urban.
Translation of an unpublished French manuscript written in 1983 under the title Terre meuble.
Translated by Anne Boyman
Edited by Michael Speaks
Publisher MIT Press, 1995
Writing Architecture series
ISBN 0262531305, 9780262531306
153 pages
Tiqqun: Grundbausteine einer Theorie des Jungen-Mädchens (1999/2009) [German]
Filed under book | Tags: · biopolitics, biopower, body, capitalism, consumerism, desire, feminism, labour, metaphysics, philosophy, reification, seduction, sexuality, theory

“Das Junge-Mädchen (la Jeune-Fille) ist die Gestalt, die Ewig-Weibliches und ewige Jugend in sich vereint. Seinen Ursprung hat es im Bankrott des von der totalen Kommerzialisierung überrannten Feminismus. Einzig fähig zu konsumieren (sowohl in der Freizeit wie bei der Arbeit), ist das Junge-Mädchen zugleich das luxuriöseste Konsumgut, das gegenwärtig in Umlauf ist: die Leit-Ware, die dazu dient, alle anderen zu verkaufen. Mit dem Junge-Mädchen wird Wirklichkeit, was sich nur die überdrehtesten Krämerseelen erträumten: die autonome Ware, die spricht und geht, die lebende Sache.
Doch woran erkennt man es? Zunächst daran, dass es ist, was es zu sein scheint, sonst nichts. Zum zweiten hat alles, was das Junge-Mädchen tut, etwas Professionelles an sich, da es seine gesamte Existenz als eine Frage des Managements betrachtet. Als Eigentümerin ihres Körpers, verkauft das Junge-Mädchen (»Sternchen«, Model, Reklame, Bild) seine »Verführungskraft« wie man einst seine »Arbeitskraft« verkaufte. Selbst seine Liebschaften sind Arbeit, und wie jede Arbeit prekär… Schließlich altert das Junge-Mädchen nicht, es verwest.”
„Julien Coupat und seine Freunde können nicht die Autoren der in TIQQUN veröffentlichten Texte sein, weil diese in einer Zone angesiedelt sind, in der es unmöglich ist, zwischen Subjekt und Dispositiv zu unterscheiden, d.h. in der der Begriff des Autors jegliche Bedeutung verloren hat.“
Der Text ist in seiner ersten Version in der Nummer 1 von Tiqqun im Januar 1999 erschienen. Die vorliegende Übersetzung folgt der überarbeiteten Fassung in: TIQQUN, Premiers matériaux pour une théorie de la Jeune-Fille, Rennes 2006.
Übersetzt von Deutsche Sektion der PI (Parti Imaginaire)
Merve Verlag, 2009
IMD 334
ISBN 3883962716, 9783883962719
120 Seiten
PDF
French edition (2001)
English edition (2010)