The coming uprising

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The author Serge Quadruppani (2005)

The coming uprising is a left-wing political essay that first appeared in French in 2007 under the title L'Insurrection qui vient with the author's name Comité invisible (Invisible Committee). The essay was revised in 2009 and was widely distributed mostly on the Internet . It has been translated into several languages, including German, English ( The Coming Insurrection ) and Spanish. The linguistic form is demanding, but is described as "perfectly understandable" and "kept in a prosaic style". The German publishing house of the font describes them as " situationist shaped".

The authors of the book were unknown for a long time; the German political scientist Alexander Straßner assigned them to the French autonomous scene. In the course of investigations into the perpetrators of sabotage on a railway line on which a Castor transport was planned, the police suspected the activist Julien Coupat , who denied the authorship, as well as the editor Eric Hazan . Coupat was one of a group of people arrested from the French village of Tarnac who received international attention as the Tarnac Nine . The book was confiscated by the authorities and was used as evidence. In June 2015, the libertarian author Serge Quadruppani identified himself as the author in a letter signed by many other people.

With A nos Amis , la fabrique published another font from the group in 2014 , which is to be understood as a continuation of the first text. In 2015 it was published in German translation under the title To our friends .

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The coming uprising refers to riots, demonstrations and riots in the years before the text was published, for example in Greece and France. The authors see the revolts as “symptoms of the collapse of Western democracies” and proclaim a society of federated municipalities and self-governing local economic organizations as an alternative. After an introductory chapter ( under which point of view ... ), the book deals with the topics of identity, society, work, space, economy, ecology and civilization in seven chapters ("circles"). French society in particular is being radically criticized. Further chapters ( Let's go , find yourself , organize yourself , rebellion ) are presented possibilities and necessities of a coming uprising. As for the use of weapons that may be necessary for this, the text remains "ambiguous":

“There is no such thing as a peaceful uprising. Weapons are necessary: ​​the point is to do everything possible to make them superfluous. "

- Invisible Committee : German-language edition by Nautilus Verlag, p. 105

Reception in Germany

Writer John Zerzan discussed the book at the 2010 San Francisco Anarchist Bookfair

The book was discussed extensively in scene circles shortly after its publication in 2007, but after a broad reception in France and the USA, the publication of the German edition in autumn 2010 also attracted great attention in German-speaking countries. In the feature sections of bourgeois newspapers in particular, several reviews appeared, which surprisingly found many positive aspects in the work.

Der Freitag was the first mass medium to review the book and found the book to be "very cleverly staged theory and rousing to read" as well as an "attempt to make left or post-Marxist theory with very clear anarchist echoes accessible to a wider audience".

For Nils Minkmar, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , it could be “the most important left theory book of our time”. Jürgen Kaube later wrote in the FAZ on November 26, 2010 that it was “not a theory at all, but rather youth literature.” “Above all, the authors hate big cities. More precisely: the 'urban area' into which the difference between town and country has been transformed. 'The metropolis wants the synthesis of the entire territory', a continuum of industrial agriculture, marketed nature parks, large residential complexes, holiday resorts. They find society itself represented in them. There are no more villages, no close relationships. The familiarity of the residential areas has been destroyed, the bond with 'places, beings, seasons'. "

The taz said: “The book is the latest attempt to give ultra-left politics a glamorous face. Situationism, autonomous anarchism and punk poetry are mixed into a succinctly worded pamphlet ”.

In November 2010 Der Spiegel published excerpts from the book. It was said that the essay was "the most radical and problematic expression of a new social unease".

Grundrisse (magazine) criticize the in some places too "martial" tone and the failure to consider gender issues .

The Jungle World states: “Critics of the FAZ and the SZ discussed it extremely benevolently. That is questionable. Based on the theories of Nazi lawyer Carl Schmitt, the book says that "sixty years of pacification" is "sixty years of democratic anesthesia". In Germany, this kind of polemic should be unacceptable. ”The sensation that the work caused can only be explained in connection with the hook and claw attack on the TGV in autumn 2008. The core idea of ​​the group was "a cybernetic constitution of power in the 21st century - that is, a" decentralized power "organized in traffic, energy and computer networks". Jungle World criticizes: "The text [...] owes a lot to National Socialist theorists who are still too uncritically received by the postmodern left: Martin Heidegger and Carl Schmitt ." It is "a kind of reimport". A revisionist anti-modernism is stated.

The right-wing conservative Secession (magazine), on the other hand, assessed the manifesto as a “literary fiction”, presumably influenced by Chuck Palahniuk's novel Fight Club , and rejected its positioning to the “right”: “Anyone who is now on the left is preparing the corpse of the 'clinically dead civilization' to dissect whoever complains about uprooting, isolation, lack of ties or even rationalization, will have to admit that the left itself had and still has a considerable share in these developments. "

The political scientist Joachim Hirsch attests to the essay that its language is “pleasantly different from the usual radical left political manifestos”. However, he criticizes the fact that in the text society breaks up into many individuals, so that the authors ultimately only reproduced the conditions they criticized. "So one could ask oneself whether the text is not also an expression of the ideological hegemony of neoliberalism that has penetrated into all corners of society."

Further publications of the Comité invisible

In 2007, the Comité invisible had already submitted three further publications by the Tiqqun group : Theory of Bloom (2000), Cybernetics and Revolt (2001) and the basic building blocks of a theory of the boy-girl (2001).

During the Chaos Communication Congress 2014 in Hamburg, another text by the same collective of authors was read out under the title Fuck Off Google . It was the fourth chapter in the sequel to “The Coming Uprising”, another manifesto that appeared under the title A nos amis (“To our friends”). With reference to the revolution in Tunisia 2010/2011 , the student protests in Québec in 2012 , the riots in Greece in 2008 and the protests in Greece from 2010–2012, this stated on the first page: “The uprisings have come, not the revolution. (...) however great the unrest under the sky, the revolution seems to be stifled everywhere in the state of turmoil. (...) At this point, we revolutionaries have to admit our defeat. ”With the renewed manifesto, another attempt to radically change the situation is to be created and a common language to be found with which the prevailing conditions can be described and their elimination ; an undertaking that, according to the reviewer of WDR 5, fails because of the “high level of abstraction” of the text. Using the example of the Stratfor hack , the authors draw the conclusion that acquiring technological knowledge is important in order to be able to destroy, and thus position themselves in opposition to accelerationism . According to WDR 5, the greatest weakness of the text is its Eurocentrism .

In April 2017, Maintenant published an interventionist commentary on the current protest movements in France, the German translation of which was published in October 2017 under the title Jetzt .

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Alexander Straßner: Uprising and Democracy: Counterinsurgency as normative and practical challenge . The problem: insurgency in theory and practice. Ed .: Martin Sebaldt, Jürgen Stern. 1st edition. VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-18254-4 , pp. 49 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ^ Table of contents of the German print edition at Edition Nautilus, p. 2.
  3. ^ Edition Nautilus: information on content and authors. Archived from the original on September 23, 2015 ; accessed on August 15, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Report de la sous-direction antiterroriste de la Direction nationale de la police judiciaire au procureur de Paris ( Memento from May 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 270 kB). Quote: “tel qu'il est mentionné au sein du pamphlet intitulé L'Insurrection qui vient signé du Comité invisible, nom du groupe constitué autour de Julien Coupat”. Retrieved November 11, 2010.
  5. ↑ Interview with J. Coupat in: Le Monde , May 25, 2009. Retrieved November 11, 2010.
  6. ^ "SNCF: l'étrange itinéraire du saboteur présumé" . In: Le Figaro . November 19, 2008. Retrieved November 11, 2010.
  7. ^ Liberating Lipsticks and Lattes. In: The New York Times, June 16, 2009, p. C1, online version. Retrieved August 15, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Serge Quadruppani, "  Je suis l'auteur de l" Insurrection qui vient "  ", quadruppani.blogspot.fr, 3 June 2015.
  9. ^ Catalog from la fabrique . Retrieved August 15, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Michael König: Poetics of Terror: politically motivated violence in contemporary German literature . Transcript Verlag , Bielefeld 2015, ISBN 978-3-8376-2987-3 , p. 69 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  11. ↑ A left manifesto as a bestseller by Florian Schmid on freitag.de, accessed November 25, 2010.
  12. ^ Author: Nils Minkmar, November 8, 2010 . Be lazy and militant . Retrieved November 10, 2010.
  13. ↑ Jürgen Kaube, November 26, 2010 . Enjoy the hate . Retrieved November 29, 2010.
  14. ^ Revolution mit Melancholie by Aram Linzel on taz.de, November 10, 2009. Accessed November 10, 2010.
  15. ↑ Documentation: The Coming Uprising . In: Der Spiegel . No. 47 , 2010, p. 166-170 ( online ).
  16. ^ The Invisible Committee: The Coming Insurrection. from fuzi on grundrisse.net, accessed November 25, 2010.
  17. ↑ It's not on the left! by Johannes Thumfart in Jungle World No. 47, accessed November 29, 2010.
  18. ↑ Invisible enemies. ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Published on sezession.de in December 2010, accessed on June 8, 2011.
  19. ↑ uprising fantasies of Joachim Hirsch on links-netz.de published, accessed on May 23, 2011th
  20. ↑ Fuck Off Google PDF of the German-language lecture script on the CCC website, accessed on January 28, 2015.
  21. ^ Invisible Committee: To our friends . 1st edition. Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-89401-818-4 , pp. 11 .
  22. ^ Invisible Committee: To our friends . 1st edition. Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-89401-818-4 , pp. 9-10 .
  23. ↑ Peter Meisenberg: Review - "To our friends": All-round blows against left cronies. In: WDR 5 . June 9, 2015, archived from the original on August 20, 2015 ; accessed on September 11, 2015 .
  24. ↑ From the pen of the brave and determined. In: Deutschlandradio Kultur . April 27, 2015, accessed September 11, 2015 .