Now (Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series) | Author: The Invisible Committee | Language: English | Publisher: Semiotext(e) | Dimensions: 4.49 x 0.47 x 7.01 inches | ISBN-10: 1635900077 | ISBN-13: 978-1635900071 | Publication Date: October 20, 2017 | Print Length: 160 pages
A new political critique from the authors of The Coming Insurrection, calling for a “destituent process” of outright refusal and utter indifference to government. This phantom chapter to the Invisible Committee’s previous book, To Our Friends, delves into their opposition to the world of capital and its law of labor, addresses current anti-terrorist rhetoric and the ferocious repression that comes with it, and clarifies the end of social democracy and the growing rumors of a coming “civil war.” It emerges at a time when the Invisible Committee’s contestation has found echoes throughout the West, with a collapse of trust in the police, an inept weariness on part of the political system, a growing urgency for opposition, a return of the theme of the Commune, a vanishing distinction between radicals and citizens, and a widespread refusal on the part of the citizen to be governed.
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, Now clarifies the Invisible Committee’s attitude toward all such elections and their outcome: one of utter indifference. It proposes a “destituent process” that charts out a different path to be taken, a path of outright refusal that simply ignores elections altogether. This path 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.
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