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Thinking through May 68 (to the May of 15M): Tomás Ibáñez
Our series of posts, on this, the 50th anniversary of the french May 68, began with a recent essay on the events, by Tomáz Ibáñez. And we close with an older reflection (a prologue to a larger essay on May … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, france, Invisible Committee, May 68, revolution, spain, Tomás Ibáñez
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He who designates the terrorist, in this world, is sovereign: The “Tarnac affair”
Antiterrorism, contrary to what the term would suggest, is not a means to fight against terrorism, it is the method by which the political enemy is positively produced as a terrorist. It is a matter, by a luxury of provocation, … Continue reading
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Tagged france, Invisible Committee, Security State, State and terror, Tarnac, Tiqqun
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An apology for communism: The invisible committee’s Now
I am large, I contain multitudes. Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass The real problem is not that of restoring a Marxist or Leninist or Maoist truth, nor that of remaking an organisation with the same methods and therefore the same … Continue reading
Government by the economy: The invisible committee’s Now
The astonishing reality of things Is my discovery every day. Each thing is what it is, And it’s hard to explain to someone how much this makes me happy, How much it’s enough for me. If I stretch out my … Continue reading
Now and the anarchy of destituent power: Reading politics with the invisible committee
… they wanted to reinvent everything, each day; to make themselves masters and possessors of their own lives. Guy Debord If to constituent power corresponds revolutions, uprisings and new consititutions, that is, a violence that lays down and constitutes new … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, Carl Schmitt, Giorgio Agamben, Guy Debord, Invisible Committee, Nuit Debout, politics, revolution
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Reading our times with Now: The invisible committee
Beginning by abandoning the old idea of revolution and reinventing it … Not as a new ideology but as a true praxis of an ethics of freedom to redefine the desirable and the undesirable and to create a new subjectivity … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, france, Günther Jakobs, Invisible Committee, Nuit Debout, spain, Tomás Ibáñez
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Now: The Invisible Committee
It’s useless to wait-for a breakthrough, for the revolution, the nuclear apocalypse or a social movement. To go on waiting is madness. The catastrophe is not coming, it is here. We are already situated within the collapse of a civilization. … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, capitalism, france, Invisible Committee, revolution
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Merry crisis and happy new fear: Invisible Committee, To Our Friends
On the happy occasion of a new year, we share the chapter, “Merry Crisis and Happy New Fear” from the Invisible Committtee’s To our friends. (The full text can be found on line at the Anarchist Library).
Destituent power as living communism
“To destitute is not primarily to attack the institution, but to attack the need we have of it.” This statement, from the Invisible Committee’s text Now (2016), is at the heart of an essay by Spencer Beswick that we share … Continue reading →