{"title":"The Invisible Committee","description":"\u003cp\u003eDelve into the radical and thought-provoking works of The Invisible Committee. Explore themes of revolution, autonomy, and social critique in their influential essays and manifestos. A vital collection for critical thinkers.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"coming-insurrection-book-the-invisible-committee-9781584350804","title":"The Coming Insurrection","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA call to arms by a group of French intellectuals that rejects leftist reform and aligns itself with younger, wilder forms of resistance.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThirty 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. 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As farcical political elections continue to unfold worldwide like a line of tumbling dominoes, and governments increasingly struggle to reclaim a legitimacy that has already slipped out of their grasp, \u003ci\u003eNow\u003c\/i\u003e clarifies the Invisible Committee's attitude toward all such elections and their outcome- one of utter indifference. \u003ci\u003eNow\u003c\/i\u003e proposes a \"destituent process\" that charts out a different path to be taken, a path of outright refusal that simply ignores elections altogether. It is a path that calls for taking over the world and not taking power, for exploring new forms of life and not a new constitution, and for desertion and silence as alternatives to proclamations and crashes. It is also a call for an unprecedented communism-a communism stronger than nation and country.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49734424920337,"sku":"NGR9781635900071","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50216703852817,"sku":"CIN1635900077G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50286707048721,"sku":"GOR009991870","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50932355498257,"sku":"GOR010336796","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51667073892625,"sku":"NIN9781635900071","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":53371353727249,"sku":"CIN1635900077A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1635900077.jpg?v=1751421716"},{"product_id":"to-our-friends-book-the-invisible-committee-9781584351672","title":"To Our Friends","description":"\u003cb\u003eA reflection on, and an extension of, the ideas laid out seven years ago in \u003ci\u003eThe Coming Insurrection\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Invisible Committee's \u003ci\u003eThe Coming Insurrection\u003c\/i\u003e was a phenomenon, celebrated in some quarters and inveighed against in others, publicized in media that ranged from campus bulletin boards to Fox News. Seven years later, The Invisible Committee follows up their premonitory manifesto with a new book, \u003ci\u003eTo Our Friends\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Invisible Committee:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn 2007 we published\u003c\/i\u003e The Coming Insurrection \u003ci\u003ein France. It must be acknowledged that a number of assertions by the Invisible Committee have since been confirmed, starting with the first and most essential: the sensational return of the insurrectionary phenomenon. Who would have bet a kopeck, seven years ago, on the overthrow of Ben Ali or Mubarak through street action, on the revolt of young people in Quebec, on the political awakening of Brazil, on the fires set French-style in the English or Swedish\u003c\/i\u003e banlieues\u003ci\u003e, on the creation of an insurrectionary commune in the very heart of Istanbul, on a movement of plaza occupations in the United States, or on the rebellion that spread throughout Greece in December of 2008?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDuring the seven years that separate\u003c\/i\u003e The Coming Insurrection \u003ci\u003efrom\u003c\/i\u003e To Our Friends\u003ci\u003e, the agents of the Invisible Committee have continued to fight, to organize, to transport themselves to the four corners of the world, to wherever the fires were lit, and to debate with comrades of every tendency and every country. 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