Coming Insurrection (Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series): Volume 1 (Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series, 1)

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Tiqqun's articles introduce several items of jargon which are freely used throughout the journal's other articles. Major terms are described here. We may never get a complete inventory of the concealed weapons the rioters possessed on January 6, since nearly all of the rioters were able to leave the Capitol without being detained and searched. But prosecutors have alleged that some of the people present at the Capitol were armed with guns, as were some other Trump supporters who traveled to Washington for January 6. The precariat and the schizophrenic French attitude towards work (valorizing and hating it at the same time) are analyzed. The theme is work, as in the case of the refusal of work, and how work affects all other categories of life (romantic relationships, friendships, "time off"). Ironically work, and the social dignity which it is supposed to confer, "has totally triumphed over all other ways of existing, at the same time as workers have become superfluous. Gains in productivity, outsourcing, mechanization, automated and digital production have so progressed that they have almost reduced to zero the quantity of living labor necessary in the manufacture of any product." [12] For the author(s), one implication of this is that wage labor will not readily be replaced by other forms of social control (apart from surveillance, the technology for which is intensifying), so that the possibilities for insurrection will increase. If I were to re-read it, I believe I'd be a lot more critical of it. The rest of the Invisible Committee's output and its milieu hasn't impressed much either. I think the content of Now raised few direct objections from me, but I'm struggling to recall much of it. In a December 21 statement, Trump called January 6 a “completely unarmed protest.” Similarly, in a tweet on December 17, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia wrote, “One of the biggest holes in the lie about J6 being a planned insurrection is that all the people there were unarmed. Anyone with half a brain knows that gun owners only leave their firearms at home when they don’t feel the need to carry a gun or are obeying the law.”

The article's illustrations included Leda, an art photograph by Joel-Peter Witkin depicting the Greek myth of Leda and the swan. The illustration appeared next to language dealing with norms in human sexuality. Witkin is known for working with disabled subjects; the central model portraying Leda was Goddess Bunny, a disabled drag queen. [97] [98] Tiqqun (2012). Preliminary Materials For a Theory of the Young-Girl (PDF). Semiotext(e) Intervention Series. Vol.12. Translated by Reines, Ariana. Semiotext(e). ISBN 9781584351085. Translation of a revised version of the article which originally appeared in Tiqqun 1. Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar claimed in July that jailed rioters who had supposedly spent time in solitary confinement “are not unruly or dangerous, violent criminals” but are “political prisoners who are now being persecuted”; he suggested that there are “nearly 200” nonviolent Capitol participants behind bars. And the pro-Trump group behind September’s “Justice for J6” rally said its event was meant “to bring awareness and attention to the unjust and unethical treatment of nonviolent January 6 political prisoners.” To say that the right moment never arrives is to say that one never knows with certainty whether it is the right time or not, and therefore one must proceed without possessing the certainty of being successful. This is true but it does not mean that one does not have to take the temporal juncture into account, that is, to question the real, and not to expect it to respond to our desires. At the risk of having to act suddenly when the right moment does arrive.

The book was mentioned in The New York Times [2] and also in the anti-consumerist magazine Adbusters [24] in relation to the Tarnac Nine. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Michael Moore mentioned the book as being the most recent one he had read. [25]

Reines, Ariana (2012). "Preliminary Materials For a Theory of the Young-Girl (article of excerpts, with translator's note)". Triple Canopy. The passages and quotations comprising Theory of the Young-Girl] are assembled here under approximate rubrics, just as they were published in TIQQUN 1; there was no doubt they needed a little organization." [57] Then it occurred to me: if The Coming Insurrection is not an effective defense of ideas, a worldview or a political project; what the text expounds is always conditioned by the assertion of an identity. It is from this angle that I shall approach it. According to the authors, the coordination of states and private businesses gives rise to modern capitalist society ( Empire), which entails " commodity domination" [16] of social interactions, supplanting authentic human community. [17] This leads to several pathological sociological types: socially alienated people ( Blooms), people who fully participate in society and thereby become commodities themselves ( Young-Girls), people who criticize society without attempting to change it ( Men of the Old Regime), and subcultures which seek to preserve themselves at the expense of their members' inability to be honest with each other ( Terrible Communities). Historically, modern Western society transitioned from a period of liberal governance (the liberal hypothesis) to a period stressing social control using technology (the cybernetic hypothesis). Modern society uses two techniques to maintain its power and to reproduce itself: biopower is used to manage the physical needs of the population, while the Spectacle is an established form of discourse which reproduces modern society through its socialization in individuals. Speaking to The Telegraph, Jean Morisot, one of the publishing house’s owners, said: “Ernest is a former philosophy student who has been working with us for a long time. He went to London for professional reasons and this is an infringement on our work. ‘This is part of a slide toward a surveillance society’Facts First: The insurrection at the Capitol was not a false flag. Just as it looked on January 6, a mob of diehard Trump supporters stormed the building. They did so after Trump urged supporters to come to Washington and then, as we noted above, made a speech urging them to “fight like hell” and to march to the Capitol. The rioters’ allegiance to Trump has been exhaustively documented in court proceedings and in their social media posts and media interviews. Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger said on CNN in September: “The officers that we have investigated and disciplined, the cases that we investigated, they run from minor infractions to officers making very poor judgments for more serious misconduct. But this notion that the Capitol Police were somehow allowing these folks into the Capitol, inviting them in, helping them, just simply not true.”