By Nikita Shepard Introduction: Rethinking Ungovernability At the Praxis 13/13 Seminar event on October 3 discussing the Invisible Committee’s Now, discussion among panel participants seemed to run aground on the term ungovernable, which marked for some panelists a space… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt The rich discussion at the Praxis 2/13 seminar on the French anarchist collective, the Invisible Committee’s new book Now (2017), raised two critical issues that continue to haunt me. The first concerns the concept of “ungovernability.” The… Continue Reading
By Jackie Wang [Trigger warning for sexual violence] I write this from a place of exhaustion. I am exhausted by rape culture, by the spectacle of politics, by the recuperation of every rupture. Fatigue forecloses presence to ourselves, makes us… Continue Reading
By Judith Revel Commençons par un constat. Les textes récents du Comité invisible – depuis L’insurrection qui vient, il y a onze ans, en passant par A nos amis, en 2014, et dernièrement Maintenant, paru en France le 21 avril… Continue Reading
By Judith Revel Translated from the French by Charleyne Biondi Let’s start with an observation. The recent writings of the Invisible Committee —from The Coming Insurrection 11 years ago, to To Our Friends in 2014 and Now, published last… Continue Reading
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
(Photo Credit to Sorbonne Library (BIS)/Sylvain Boyer) [Editor’s Note: In The Invisible Committee’s new book, Now (2017), the Committee favorably discusses riots, and develops the notion of destituent power, reviving the historical situation of May ’68 and other insurrectionary communes… 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
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