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The Coming Insurrection by The Invisible Committee
“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.” - from The Coming Insurrection
The original French edition of this savage indictment of contemporary
society became the principal piece of evidence in an anti-terrorism case
in France against nine individuals accused of sabotaging overhead
electricity cables on French railways. The French government has
proclaimed the book “a manual for terrorism” and allege that the
so-called “Tarnac 9” are its authors.
Written by an anonymous collective of French intellectuals and
academics, The Coming Insurrection is an incisive call to arms which
outlines ways of disrupting the circuitry of present-day capitalism,
while advocating a new approach to community. Rooted in the rioting and
unrest in the Paris suburbs, Greece and Belgrade, it rejects leftist
reform and draws instead on the ideas of the Italian Movement of 1977 to
attack consumerism, the cult of individualism and the 24-hour economy.
This English translation includes a new Introduction by The Invisible
Committee, written since their arrest and commenting on the current
economic crisis.
Paperback. 136 pp.
Distributed for Semiotext(e) by The MIT Press
Intervention series, No. 1
New article on Metamute!
Crash
By Peter CartyWhat is it that comes out of a crash? In the wake of Ballard’s death, Peter Carty writes a new work of fiction set in a contemporary London art school
http://www.metamute.org/en/content/crash
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They May Crush the Flowers…
By Iain BoalWith Vera Chytilová’s satirical feminist romp Daisies released on DVD this year, Iain Boal takes the opportunity to revisit the brief cultural explosion that was the Czech New Wave and one of its most original and irreverent contributions
http://www.metamute.org/en/content/they_may_crush_the_flowers
Shackdwellers Murdered by Thugs in Durban, S. Africa - ANC and Police Complicit
by The Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front
A Statement from The Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front (ZACAF):
ZACF: Kennedy Road Murders Recall Terror of the 1980s
Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Tue, 2009-09-29 19:19. The Attack on AbM in Kennedy Road | Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front
Kennedy Road Murders Recall Terror of the 1980s
ZACF Statement on the Armed Attack on Abahlali baseMjondolo in Kennedy Road Informal Settlement
The Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front (ZACF) notes with disgust the attacks on the Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM) affiliated Kennedy Road Development Committee (KRDC) by a heavily armed gang near the AbM office in Kennedy Road informal settlement in Durban, KwaZulu Natal. We hereby extend our sympathy and solidarity to all those who have fallen victim to these cowardly attacks, and call for both national and international mobilisation and solidarity in their defence.
+full statement at: http://www.metamute.org/en/shackdwellers_murdered_by_thugs_in_durban_s_africa_anc_and_police_complicit
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No More Poodles (Dumitrescu/Avram: Rebirth of Avant Garde)
By Ben Watson
http://www.metamute.org/en/content/no_more_poodles_dumitrescu_avram_rebirth_of_avant_garde
Kicking off our collectively composed music column, Ben Watson explodes the integrity of cookie-cutter modern music, dynamites the shameless posturing of other critics (Po-Mo or otherwise) and makes those who listen to Iancu Dumitrescu and Ana-Maria Avram without an open copy of Negative Dialectics in their lap look like utter, utter fools
EVENT- Capitalism’s Present Crisis - How Will It End? -
ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR/MUTE MAGAZINE DISCUSSION, 4-6pm, 24th OCTOBER, 2009
More information at: http://www.metamute.org/en/calendar/capitalism_s_present_crisis_how_will_it_end
Capitalism’s Present Crisis - How Will It End?
The capitalist system is facing years of crisis and social instability. This raises two questions:
1) what caused the crisis? Was it ‘greedy bankers’, the natural tendencies of the capitalist system, or the resistance of the working class?
2) how will the crisis end? Will it be with more state regulation, more cuts in living standards or with working class revolution?
The Anarchist Bookfair and Mute magazine have invited three speakers to debate these issues:
Paul Mason, a presenter on BBC’s Newsnight, and author of Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed
John Holloway, author of Change The World Without Taking Power and Crack Capitalism (forthcoming)
William Dixon, Mute magazine contributor.
The discussion will take place at the Skeel Lecture Theatre, Anarchist Bookfair, Queen Mary & Westfield college, Mile End Road, London E1, Mile End tube.
For further information on the Anarchist Bookfair, including a roster of many other talks, go to:
http://www.anarchistbookfair.org
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Invisible Politics an Introduction to Contemporary Communisation
By John Cunningham
http://www.metamute.org/en/content/invisible_politics_an_introduction_to_contemporary_communisation
In the wake of the organised left and the demise of working class self-identity, communisation offers a paradoxical means of superseding capitalism in the here and now whilst abandoning orthodox theories of revolution. John Cunningham reports from the picket line of the ‘human strike’
MUTE Vol 2 #13 OUT NOW
In this issue of Mute there is a generalised refusal to have our selves, in the widest sense of the word, put to work. As we start to see the real repercussions of the financial crisis bite, the Bretton Woods ideological state apparatus is looking rather threadbare. The strategy to placate social desires through cheap credit, property acquisition and the decoration of domestic surfaces continues against a muted backdrop of factory occupations, boss-nappings, foreclosures, and the dregs of what looks to be Big Brother’s last season. It is tempting to imagine that the mass tutelage in narcissism which has helped pacify the social body for so long might collapse under the weight of its own vacuity and unsustainable cruelty. As capitalism falters in its corralling of desires, writers in this issue think about how such energies might escape from their official channels.
Read more, buy, and oogle at: http://www.metamute.org/pod/mute_vol_2_13