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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"Any book indirectly responsible formassive raids involving helicoptersand anti-terrorist police, a spleneticFox News broadcast and an impromptubook-reading at a Barnes & Noble bookshopin New York (also attended by thepolice) must have something going for it.And so it is with The Coming Insurrection,the kind of political pamphlet last fashionablein the 17th century (and perhapsfor a period in the 1960s and '70s)." Nina Power Frieze Magazine
"For culture jammers, anarchists and malcontents everywhere, The Coming Insurrection is a bracing tonic -- an elegant and inspiring call to arms." Kono Matsu Adbusters
"I am not calling for a ban on this book. It's important that you read this book. [...] And let me tell you something: Don't dismiss these people. Don't dismiss them." Glenn Beck Fox News, Glenn Beck Program
"This is quite possibly the most evil thing I've ever read." Glenn Beck Fox News, Glenn Beck Program
"...without a doubt the most thought-provoking radical text to be published in the past ten years. It deserves to be read and discussed." Daniel Miller New Statesman
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58 of 72 people found the following review helpful
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Look all around you today and you can take the news and protesting straight from the pages of this book. It's proof of society gone terribly wrong. Proof that massive entitlement programs only breed contempt.
I could get really philosophical about the book but I won't. It's worth reading, it's very political, very left-wing and very, very frightenng.
I could get really philosophical about the book but I won't. It's worth reading, it's very political, very left-wing and very, very frightenng.
18 of 22 people found the following review helpful
By L. Webb
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If you want to understand what may be going on to cause the chaos in the world right now (i.e. Egypt, Yeman, Italy, Mexico, etc) this is a must read. It would seem that the steps and plan is being followed fairly close.
25 of 32 people found the following review helpful
By Diziet
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I really enjoyed this little book. It's one of those texts that you find yourself saying 'Yes, that IS the way it is!' with almost a shock of recognition. Certainly, at times the language is a little rhetorical, almost poetic, but that's o.k. - at least it means there's some passion there.
So what is in the book? It's divided into a number of sections, the main being seven 'circles' or areas of contention. These rather reminded me of the areas of analysis outlined by David Harvey in his recent and comprehensive 'The Enigma of Capital'.
The first 'circle' is the personal:
'My body belongs to me. I am me, you are you and something's wrong. Mass personalisation. Individualisation of all conditions - life, work and misery.' (P29)
It seems to me that this is related to the ideas in Thomas Frank's 'The Conquest of Cool' but taken further, and taken personally.
The second 'circle' refers to culture in a fairly wide sense, including the media, schools:
'A burst of laughter is the only appropriate response to all the serious "questions" posed by news analysts. To take the most banal: there is no "immigration question". Who still grows up where they were born? Who lives where they grew up? Who works where they live?' (P35)
The third concerns itself with 'work', the fourth with the 'metropolis' - rejecting the town/country split and seeing the whole as 'one single urban cloth' (P52).
The fifth deals with the 'economy' - 'We have to see that the economy is not "in" crisis, the economy is itself the crisis.' (P63)
The sixth circle looks at the environment - again, the book turns the terminology on its head by stating that 'There is no "environmental catastrophe". The catastrophe is the environment itself.' (P74)
Finally, the seventh 'circle' considers 'civilisation' - specifically Western civilisation and its relation to the State: 'The older and more powerful the state, the less it is a superstructure or exoskeleton of a society and the more it constitutes the subjectivities that people it.' (P87).
The seven 'circles' take up most of the book. It seems to me that really what is being described here is a very deep and all-pervasive sense of alienation. That rings true too.
The final sections attempt to put forward strategies to resist this alienation, to re-connect, renew and rethink the relationships between people and the 'circles'. Tending towards a sort of self-help, communard anarchism, it comes close to utopian, but it reminded me of other attempts to think through a different set of social relations - in novel form there's the classic 'The Dispossessed' or the more recent 'New Model Army'. It also reminded me a bit of Régis Debray's 'Revolution in the Revolution?'.
It might be easy, I suppose, to dismiss this book as youthful overblown utopian rhetoric. I really think that that would be a mistake. As I said at the beginning, there is a shock of recognition in the descriptive sections of the book; it is describing real issues and real events. These issues need more than a dry academic exposition - '...we dream of an age equal to our passions.' (P84)
So what is in the book? It's divided into a number of sections, the main being seven 'circles' or areas of contention. These rather reminded me of the areas of analysis outlined by David Harvey in his recent and comprehensive 'The Enigma of Capital'.
The first 'circle' is the personal:
'My body belongs to me. I am me, you are you and something's wrong. Mass personalisation. Individualisation of all conditions - life, work and misery.' (P29)
It seems to me that this is related to the ideas in Thomas Frank's 'The Conquest of Cool' but taken further, and taken personally.
The second 'circle' refers to culture in a fairly wide sense, including the media, schools:
'A burst of laughter is the only appropriate response to all the serious "questions" posed by news analysts. To take the most banal: there is no "immigration question". Who still grows up where they were born? Who lives where they grew up? Who works where they live?' (P35)
The third concerns itself with 'work', the fourth with the 'metropolis' - rejecting the town/country split and seeing the whole as 'one single urban cloth' (P52).
The fifth deals with the 'economy' - 'We have to see that the economy is not "in" crisis, the economy is itself the crisis.' (P63)
The sixth circle looks at the environment - again, the book turns the terminology on its head by stating that 'There is no "environmental catastrophe". The catastrophe is the environment itself.' (P74)
Finally, the seventh 'circle' considers 'civilisation' - specifically Western civilisation and its relation to the State: 'The older and more powerful the state, the less it is a superstructure or exoskeleton of a society and the more it constitutes the subjectivities that people it.' (P87).
The seven 'circles' take up most of the book. It seems to me that really what is being described here is a very deep and all-pervasive sense of alienation. That rings true too.
The final sections attempt to put forward strategies to resist this alienation, to re-connect, renew and rethink the relationships between people and the 'circles'. Tending towards a sort of self-help, communard anarchism, it comes close to utopian, but it reminded me of other attempts to think through a different set of social relations - in novel form there's the classic 'The Dispossessed' or the more recent 'New Model Army'. It also reminded me a bit of Régis Debray's 'Revolution in the Revolution?'.
It might be easy, I suppose, to dismiss this book as youthful overblown utopian rhetoric. I really think that that would be a mistake. As I said at the beginning, there is a shock of recognition in the descriptive sections of the book; it is describing real issues and real events. These issues need more than a dry academic exposition - '...we dream of an age equal to our passions.' (P84)
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Horrifying
This is the face of today's radical left. These are the people who organize the protest at the g-8 summits and organized the Occupy Wall Street movement. Read more
Published 15 days ago by Todd Kinsey
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Interesting
This little book makes you think out of the box. It's a little day and you have to be in the mindset of the author to understand it. However, it is quite enllightening.
Published 2 months ago by Vicki Vestre
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THE COMING INSURRECTION
All I can say is Glenn Beck warned us about this one and boy, was he right. These people are total radical loons.
Published 2 months ago by Peggy
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my Daughter's Tablet
the kid loves it for drawing chemical and math formulas....nothing more to say short of worth the price. Sure happy about that.
Published 2 months ago by richard escobar
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A necessary read beyond a shadow of a doubt.
It's not often that I would say that a book is full of irrefutable truth, but this resonated with me like nothing else. A must-read for the entire Western world. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Nic LesFlics
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Kooks & Dangerous
The author and his/her ilk are kooks. They advocate anarchy. They are present in our country, they represent a clear danger to Western Culture and they need to be exposed for who... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Rob Umstead
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Same old, Same old...
I borrowed this tome from a neighbor, or rather. It was foisted upon me as coming recommended from Glenn Beck himself (greaaaattttt). Read more
Published 7 months ago by The Drizzle
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An Interesting Book
This book was recommended by Glenn Beck. It was very difficult for me to understand what I read, but finally I got through it. Mr. Read more
Published 8 months ago by 1947
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The Coming Insurrection (Paperback) by The Invisible Committee
If GOD is in our life none of this would be happening such as you read in this book. Very sad!!!
Published 8 months ago by nezzy42
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Th Coming Insurrection
Have not finished book as yet, interesting concept and a timely subject for current times, needs to be considered. Worthwhile read.
Published 10 months ago by Books2 read
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