The Coming Insurrection
By: The Invisible Committee
Series: Semiotext(e) Intervention Series, 1
Publisher: Semiotext(e); Distributed by the MIT Press
Published: 2009-05-15
Place of publication: Los Angeles, USA; Cambridge, USA
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Translation of: L’Insurrection qui vient
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 135
ISBN-13: 9781584350804
Copyright date: 2009
Subjects: Forecasting; World politics; Anarchism; Insurgency
Other titles: Der kommende Aufstand
Work titles: Insurrection qui vient
Description: **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 strategic prescription for an emergent war-machine capable of “spreading 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 Hot-wired to the movement of ’77 in Italy, its preferred historical reference point, *The Coming Insurrection* formulates an ethics that takes as its starting point theft, sabotage, the refusal to work, and the elaboration of collective,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 life forms. 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.

(Source: [MIT Press](https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781584350804/the-coming-insurrection/))
Table of contents: title: Introduction: A point of clarification
pagenum: 9; title: From whatever angle…
pagenum: 23; title: First Circle
pagenum: 29; title: Second Circle
pagenum: 35; title: Third Circle
pagenum: 43; title: Fourth Circle
pagenum: 52; title: Fifth Circle
pagenum: 63; title: Sixth Circle
pagenum: 73; title: Seventh Circle
pagenum: 85; title: Get Going!
pagenum: 95; title: Find Each Other
pagenum: 97; title: Get Organized
pagenum: 103; title: Insurrection
pagenum: 117