The Invisible Committee | The Coming Insurrection

From whatever angle you approach it, the present offers no way out. This is not the least of its virtues. From those who seek hope above all, it tears away every firm ground. Those who claim to have solutions are contradicted almost immediately. Everyone agrees that things can only get worse. “The future has no future” is the wisdom of an age that, for all its appearance of perfect normalcy, has reached the level of consciousness of the first punks. The sphere of political representation has come to a close. From left to right, it’s the same nothingness striking the…

Jean-Marie Gleize | A Preparatory Act | Insurrection [8th December 2018: Julien Coupat preemptively arrested]

2018-12-082018-12-09 Categories: Poetry & PoeticsTags: Class Struggle · Communism · Democracy · Gilets Jaunes · Jean-Marie Gleize · Julien Coupat · Marxism · Resistance · Revolution1 Comment

Saturday, 8 December 2018: Julien Coupat preemptively arrested a preparatory act … successive laws has constructed a system of emergency powers which renews the lois scélérates the charge of “criminal conspiracy to commit a terrorist act” it takes only two people to constitute a “terrorist group” and it takes only a preparatory act for the infraction to be so defined. This preparatory act is not specified relation—even tenuous or remote, even love or friendship—with any of the opposed to common law which criminalizes the acts, the antiterrorist approach implicated in a terrorist activity without having to establish a…

Tiqqun | This Is Not a Program

2018-09-202019-03-02 Categories: Dérive · Philosophy & PoliticsTags: Antonio Negri · AUTONOMIA · Communism · Deleuze & Guattari · Democracy · Félix Guattari · Giorgio Agamben · Guy Debord · Mario Tronti · Marxism · May '68 · Nanni Balestrini · Revolution · Riots · Situationist International · The Coming Insurrection · TiqqunLeave a comment

“’77 wasn’t like ’68. ’68 was anti-establishment, ’77 was radically alternative. This is why the ‘official’ version portrays ’68 as good and ’77 as bad; in fact, ’68 was co-opted whereas ’77 was annihilated. This is why, unlike ’68, ’77 could never make for an easy object of celebration.”
— Nanni Balestrini, Primo Moroni, L’orda d’oro

Alain Badiou | The Rebirth of History | Times of Riots and Uprisings

2018-06-142020-06-26 Categories: Philosophy & PoliticsTags: Alain Badiou · Communism · Democracy · Guy Debord · Revolution · Riots · The Coming InsurrectionLeave a comment

Alain Badiou; The Rebirth of History | Times of Riots and Uprisings (Full Book) History and the Sphinx: Of Riots and Uprisings by Jasper Bernes, Joshua Clover Riots are the Sphinx of the left. Every soi disant radical intellectual feels compelled, it seems, to answer the riddle they hear posed by the riots of the present, in Bahrain or Asturias, Chile or Britain: Why now? Why here? Why riot? These answers generally come in a few simple varieties. First, if the riot seems to lack focus or present clears demands – that is, if it is illegible as “protest,”…

Jacques Rancière; Disagreement: Politics and Philosophy

2018-05-012020-01-26 Categories: Philosophy & PoliticsTags: Democracy · Jacques RancièreLeave a comment

Jacques Rancière; Disagreement: Politics and Philosophy (Full book) “Is there any such thing as political philosophy?” So begins this provocative book by one of the foremost figures in Continental thought. Here, Jacques Rancière brings a new an highly useful set of terms to the vexed debate about political effectiveness and “the en of politics.” What precisely is at stake in the relationship between “philosophy” and the adjective “political”? In Disagreement, Rancière explores the apparent contradiction between these terms and reveals the uneasy meaning of their union in the phrase “political philosophy”—a juncture related to age-old attempts in philosophy to answer…

Jacques Rancière; Althusser’s Lesson

2018-04-242019-04-13 Categories: Philosophy & PoliticsTags: Communism · Democracy · Jacques Rancière · Les Révoltes Logiques · Louis AlthusserLeave a comment

Jacques Rancière, Althusser’s Lesson (Full book) Jacques Rancière’s first major work, Althusser’s Lesson appeared in 1974, just as the energies of May 68 were losing ground to the calls for a return to order. Rancière’s analysis of Althusserian Marxism unfolds against this background: what is the relationship between the return to order and the enthusiasm which greeted the publication of Althusser’s Reply to John Lewis in 1973? How to explain the rehabilitation of a philosophy that had been declared ‘dead and buried on the barricades of May 68’? What had changed? The answer to this question takes the form of…

Jacques Rancière; The Unforgettable

2018-03-092018-07-12 Categories: Philosophy & PoliticsTags: Chris Marker · Democracy · Film · Franco Fortini · Harun Farocki · Jacques Rancière · Jean-Luc Godard · Revolution · ShoahLeave a comment

1 In front of the camera lens It is an image from turn-of-the-century Saint Petersburg, both ordinary and extraordinary at the same time. The imperial family is passing by, surrounded by an escort of officers and dignitaries. The crowd gathered there, at the side of the road, is addressed by an officer with an imperious gesture: when the Tsar passes, the thing to do is to remove your hat. The commentator’s voice is heard: I don’t want this image to be forgotten. What is Chris Marker trying to tell us by placing this image at the opening of…

Jacques Rancière; Politics and Aesthetics

2018-01-042018-07-12 Categories: Philosophy & PoliticsTags: Antonin Artaud · Bertolt Brecht · Democracy · Jacques RancièreLeave a comment

Peter Hallward: Sometimes you present political practice as a sort of ex nihilo innovation, almost like the constitution of a new world, even if the world in question is extremely fragile, uncertain, ephemeral. Don’t you need to consider political innovation alongside the development of its conditions of possibility? I mean, for instance, on the political side of things, the role played by civic institutions and state organisations, the public space opened up, in Athens, in France, by the invention of democratic institutions (that is, the sort of factors you generally relegate to the sphere of the police, as opposed to…

Jacques Rancière; The Emancipated Spectator (5th International Summer Academy)

2018-01-042018-07-12 Categories: Philosophy & PoliticsTags: Antonin Artaud · Bertolt Brecht · Democracy · Guy Debord · Jacques RancièreLeave a comment

I gave to this talk the title: « The Emancipated Spectator » . As I understand it, a title is always a challenge. It sets forth the presupposition that an expression makes sense, that there is a link between separate terms, which also means between concepts , problems and theories which seem at first sight to bear no direct relation on each other. In a sense, this title expresses the perplexity that was mine when Marten Spangberg invited me to deliver what is supposed to be the “keynote” lecture of this academy. He told me that he wanted me…

Democracy. Jean-Marie Gleize / Rimbaud / Kristin Ross

2017-12-262019-08-07 Categories: Philosophy & Politics · Poetry & PoeticsTags: Arthur Rimbaud · Democracy · Jean-Marie Gleize · Kristin Ross · ResistanceLeave a comment

Jean-Marie Gleize Democracy There is, in Rimbaud’s Illuminations, a text called “Democracy.” We know little of this text’s composition, as the manuscript is lost. It was published belatedly in a journal (La Vogue, 1889), but we are scarcely surprised to encounter a text of this title from the quill of that democrat Rimbaud, virulently hostile to Napoléon III’s dictatorship, radically aligned with the insurrectionary movement of the Paris Commune — with, one might say, an insurgent, revolutionary democracy. As Bernard Noël has suggested, Rimbaud is a communard “not only in his opinion, but in his being.” Now the particularity…

WRITING / PUBLICATIONS

2016-11-152022-10-07 Categories: WorksTags: Democracy · Jacques RancièreLeave a comment

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