By Amna A. Akbar Our texts for this week, Bernie Sanders’s Guide to Political Revolution, and Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda, represent much of what academics and leftists disdain about political work. They are crass, over-simplistic, not… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt Bernie Sanders appropriates the term “political revolution.” That is significant in and of itself. The meaning of the term “revolution” has undergone change over time, and, in its modern usage, connotes “social” as opposed to merely… Continue Reading
By Julian Huertas The first impression the reader gets after finishing Now, is that of an intellectual electric shock. Written in a passionate way and dismissing – maybe despising – the formal conventions of academic scholarship, the Invisible Committee calls for… Continue Reading
By Chris Roberts The Invisible Committee is the anonymous anarcho-communist collective in France who authored 2007’s The Coming Insurrection, a call to “social rupture” that was the main inspiration behind French police’s decade-long wild-goose chase for a leftist terrorist group… Continue Reading
Sanders, Bernard. Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution. Henry Holt & Company, 2017. Indivisible. “A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda“. Indivisible.com, 2016.
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By Bernard E. Harcourt The Invisible Committee’s latest book, Now, is remarkably rich in ideas and theoretical imagination. Whether one agrees or not with the overall intervention—which promotes a vision of destituent insurrection and communalist living—the work itself is chock full… Continue Reading
By McKenzie Wark The Invisible Committee quite possibly lifted their name from a book by the Belgian Surrealist Marcel Mariën, Theory of Immediate World Revolution, from 1958. It proposed a sort of spectral Leninism based on the contemporary organizing principle of… Continue Reading
Readings Invisible Committee. Now. Tr. Robert Edward Hurley, Semiotext(e), 2017. (Available at BookCulture) McKenzie Wark, “No-Futurism” [Essay about the Invisible Committee’s previous book, To Our Friends (2015)], Public Seminar, June 22, 2015.
By Bernard E. Harcourt The Invisible Committee burst on the political scene in 2007 with the publication of its anonymous tract The Coming Insurrection. The Committee—an anonymous, loosely formed group of anarchist activists in France, often associated with the earlier… Continue Reading