The Coming Insurrection (Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series)

The Coming Insurrection (Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series)
by The Invisible Committee

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Author: The Invisible Committee
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); French (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-05-15
ISBN: 1584350806
Number of pages: 136
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
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Book Review: The Current Insurrection
Summary: 5 Stars

I first heard of this book through an underground online anarchist news syndicate called submedia.tv, talking about this book being read out aloud in corporate chains like Barnes & Noble and Starbucks. Then I heard somewhere that Glenn Beck had urged the public to read this book, because it was dangerous- and it was at the moment that the author(s) already had a pre-order on their hands. Not because I care what Glenn Beck urges me to read, but because this book is 'dangerous', and dangerous books are usually chalk full of poetry, predictions, and truth that is nothing but dynamite to the current establishment in question. Those establishments being established lifestyles, taboos, philosophies or types of government. Usually those kind of books tend to be very amazing, life changing even.

There was a time when Oscar Wilde was put into jail for his book "The Picture of Dorian Gray", apparently that book was really dangerous. From what I hear (its still on my reading list) its really, really good too. 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Fight Club, Ulysses, Candide. All banned, one time or another, some more then others. All really awesome books. Last I heard France is trying to ban this particular title, and even held one person in jail for an indefinite amount of time just under the suspicion that they thought he wrote it.

Dynamite.

From what I've read of peoples opinions, readers of this book either have a loving relationship with it and compare it to pure poetry, or find it highly odious. There's very little room for a gray area.

Those who compare it to poetry tend to be those of the anti-authoritarian, counterculture type- to those I say; If you've ever wanted to read Fight Club minus the plot, and just want Tyler Durden's rhetorical philosophy covering 130 pages non-stop, go for this book.

Allow me to make up for the trite hyperbole:

For those counterculture types, get this book. It will provide you with a lot of information and perspective that you never really crossed before, and I can pretty much guarantee you that you will come out of this feeling like your mind has been sharpened a bit. You will look at things differently, and feel learned, renewed, even inspired. I can already see this book being hailed as a classic entry into the discourse that is radical politics. That, and if you feel like coaxing the NSA, FBI, or CIA to watch you (more so then you already have), then make sure you buy this off the internet.

Wink wink, nudge nudge.

Now for anyone else who isn't of the anti-authoritarian counterculture type, you will probably label this as adolescent angst, anarchist garbage, an appeal to barbarism etc. And even if I may disagree with your opinion of the book, and see this as an appeal to true community and sustainable living rather then to pure destruction, I'd say don't go for this. Ignore Glenn Beck, or whatever mainstream media talking head who told you to read it, you will come out of this reading experience feeling like you've wasted your time. Maybe even a little betrayed because you expected it to be better in some aspects. Although some of you may not feel that way at all, on the whole that's the general reaction. If you still feel like you want to read a book on radical politics of roughly the same vain, I'd sway you over to Anarchy and Order: Essays in Politics, Anarchism And Other Essays, or Welcome to the Machine: Science, Surveillance, and the Culture of Control as gradient to ease you into the field rather then reading the quick and dirty onslaught of social criticism that is the coming insurrection that will probably make you feel dissatisfied if you've never had any previous readings experience on the topic.


I'm personally about as excited with this book as I am with John Taylor Gatto's Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling (which I highly recommend for everyone, even those that don't find the rhetoric of The Coming Insurrection appealing), and I totally agree with Glenn Beck that this is an important book. But in his eyes, for all the wrong reasons. I thought this book was rather fascinating and inspiring. It made it to the top of my list before I was twenty pages into it. While I recommend only a certain circle to read it, I think that circle should pass it around to everyone else they know, especially those who they feel are ready to be introduced to this kind of philosophy.
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Summary of The Coming Insurrection (Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series)

A call to arms by a group of French intellectuals that rejects leftist reform and aligns itself with younger, wilder forms of resistance.

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