Comments on: Report on “The Coming Insurrection” book launch at NYC Barnes and Nobles, Sephora, Starbucks

By: Brandy

Brandy — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 04:00:29 +0000

Love the fact that capitalism (the very thing the author/s supposedly abhors)has made them rich. Ohh the insanity.

By: “The Coming Insurrection” pelo The Invisible Commitee « Rua do Patrocínio

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 16:04:07 +0000

[...] o texto parece ser pouco compatível com o movimento de esquerda na Europa, mas curiosamente teve uma ampla recepção nos EUA, na sequência do New Anarchism. Com a ajuda da polícia francesa e da Fox News, o manifesto de [...]

By: vincent

vincent — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:05:10 +0000

When did Capitalism become a bad word? If we all take a step back we will see that it was capitalism that made us the greatest most prosperous nation in the world. It is capitalism, implemented by Red China economically, that lifted 300 million of its people out of poverty.

In contrast, it is Communism and Marxist ideas that murdered 100 million people in the 20th Century and has left untold millions others in the U.S. and throughout the world in misery and mediocrity at best.

By: Abe J.

Abe J. — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:32:55 +0000

ARTHUR SUX

By: visitor

visitor — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 22:06:06 +0000

Hahaha, the last sentence, “academic-looking, quite attractive, and will fit right in your pocket”… buy it now for $12.95! lol, classic pitch and sell. nice one.

By: banane

banane — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:46:31 +0000

Please don’t say that Bernard Henri Levi and Andre Glusksmann are intellectuals ! And don’t think they represents french intellectuals . We have good one here who are unknown : Michéa (who bring us christopher lasch), Philippe Murray …
By the way your country will never have a competent revolutionar man, i am sorry for you.

By: Freeling

Freeling — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:32:48 +0000

French intellectual drivel never takes in the US. Just ask Bernard Henri Levi and Andre Glucksmann. If the leaders of the coming insurrection are as inarticulate and unintelligible as the writers of The Coming Insurrection, the coming insurrection is going to be an amateurish, unfathomable, and bumbling mess. Where are the competent revolutionaries when you really need them?

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By: Liam

Liam — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:20:18 +0000

Destroy everything–but especially, what we like.

By: Liberating Lipsticks and Lattes (staged book party for the coming insurrection) « burnt bookmobile

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:41:47 +0000

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By: Andy Folk Andy Folk — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:47:48 +0000 JS– The “official launch” of this book was indeed a prank. Barnes and Nobles or any of these stores were not aware the events were to occur, however the whole event was indeed a marketing spectacle for The Coming Insurrection and its message. The use of commidities and spectacle against the forces that give these forms authority may seem ironic but some would argue the creation of value released from their inversion makes life worth living. Ricardo– Make no mistake that the reappropriation of the commidities embodied by the act of shoplifting is very much in line with the sentiments of the Coming Insurrection although it is by no means an optimum representation of how far its readers should go to disrespect the commodity form. Not sure where you got the idea that everyone can afford what they steal, not that it matters. But please, read the book and point out to me the misinterpretation you predict. By: ricardo ricardo — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:06:45 +0000 Wow, your admission that attendees used the publication of this book and the hoopla it caused as literally a distraction so they could steal things they probably could have afforded is incredibly telling. I might be inclined to side with this anticapitalist movement if the adherents weren’t such immature, disingenuous pricks. Do you really believe any of this stuff, or does it just feel exciting and rebellious to engage in meaningless countercultural activities–especially if you can pocket that book or eyeliner you could afford anyway? Or am I (too) missing something? I will admit that I haven’t read “The Coming Insurrection,” though I plan to, and that perhaps what I’m reacting to here is just the misinterpretation of a revolutionary text by a bunch of fucking anarchists. By: JS JS — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:49:19 +0000 Lemme see if I understand this correctly: this event was “the official book launch” of a new title by Semiotexte; this title will surely be available for sale at Barnes & Noble (and Amazon and Borders et al); these fine fellows — employees of Semiotexte? employees of its distributor, The MIT Press? the folks fresh from “occupying” the New School and/or New York University? not sure, but they had the good marketing sense to tip off the New York Times reporter assigned to the art/left/street ghetto and that guy who happened to have a nice video camera on hand — declaimed in public that they are opposed to commodities, marketing, and spectacle. Am I missing something? Too concerned with real political problems to be amused by prankster irony?
By: a

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 05:49:16 +0000

This is the newest English translation:

http://tarnac9.wordpress.com/texts/the-coming-insurrection/