By Sami Cleland I. Destitution as Anti-Uprising The Invisible Committee’s Now (2017) provides an interesting follow-up to last year seminar series, which explored the various modalities of uprising. In Now, the Invisible Committee urges destitution the essential, necessary and apt… Continue Reading
By Darshana Mitra Destitution to me involves the gradual but interminable withdrawal of the self from institutions of the State, and ungovernability is the refusal to let institutions determine and shape the forms of life. That we discuss and dismiss… 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
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By Teddy Corcoran Knowing I would have to write this post before our Praxis 2/13 meeting, I read The Invisible Committee’s Now several weeks in advance. The results were mixed. I found the book itself to be dangerous, direct, cynical,… Continue Reading
By Sophie Molyneux On a recent evening, sitting in a dark pub waiting for trivia to start, I spoke to new acquaintances I was trying to befriend. Standard introductory topics exhausted, we ventured into the realm of politics. Assuming a… 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.
Required books Bargu, Banu. Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons. Columbia University Press, 2016. Butler, Judith. Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly. Harvard University Press, 2015. El-Ariss, Tarek. Leaks, Hacks, and Scandal: Arab Culture in the Digital Age.… Continue Reading
The Praxis 13/13 seminars can be accessed virtually and you can fully participate in the series from a distance. Here are some ways to be part of the seminar even if you are not physically at Columbia University in New… Continue Reading