The Beautiful Hell
taken from Ill Will Editions The hell of the living is not something to come; if there is one, it is what is already here, the hell in which we live every day, that we form by being together. There …
Tiqqun
Destituent Power: An Incomplete Timeline
taken from destituencies A Note For the Reader A proper genealogy of the destitution thesis has yet to be written. The names, dates, and texts that follow are necessarily incomplete. This is because the very nature of destitution is something …
Politics is Nothing but the Reign of Feints and Shenanigans
INTERVIEW WITH JULIEN COUPAT AND MATHIEU BURNEL e Monde: What do you make of the presidential campaign? What campaign? There was no campaign. There was a soap opera, a fairly worn-out one at that, to tell the truth, full of …
On Socialist Cybernetics, Accelerationist Dreams, and Tiqqun’s Nightmares
Nikita Khrushchev was skeptical whether computers can help boost history towards communism. Nevertheless, he was willing to give it a try and ordered a super-computer for economical support of soviet socialism. The mostly talented and best trained soviet engineers set …
On Socialist Cybernetics, Accelerationist Dreams, and Tiqqun’s Nightmares
Frankreich am Abgrund: “Entweder stürzen wir das System oder das System wird uns vernichten”
Im Gegensatz zu allem, was wir gehört haben, ist das Mysterium nicht, dass wir uns erheben, sondern dass wir es vorher nicht getan haben. Die Anomalie liegt nicht in dem, was wir jetzt tun, sondern in dem, was wir bisher …
Frankreich am Abgrund: “Entweder stürzen wir das System oder das System wird uns vernichten”
This Is Not a Program
Historical conflict no longer opposes two massive molar heaps, two classesthe exploited and the exploiters, the dominant and dominated, managers and workers between which, in each individual case, it would be possible to differentiate. The front line no longer cuts …
He who designates the terrorist, in this world, is sovereign: The “Tarnac affair”
Antiterrorism, contrary to what the term would suggest, is not a means to fight against terrorism, it is the method by which the political enemy is positively produced as a terrorist. It is a matter, by a luxury of provocation, …
He who designates the terrorist, in this world, is sovereign: The “Tarnac affair”
Maske, Feuer, Nebel. Typologie des ‚Schwarzen Blocks‘
Kaum eine von der Polizei vorzeitig beendete Demonstration kommt ohne die üblichen begrifflichen Zerlegungen in ‚friedliche Demonstranten‘ und ‚gewaltbereite Störer/Chaoten/Extremisten/usf.‘ aus. Die polizeiliche Gewalt wird durch das Vorhandensein so identifizierter Personen und das staatliche Gewaltmonopol gerechtfertigt auch dann, wenn die …
What are we to do?
The term ‘communization’ has recently become something of a buzzword. A number of factors have contributed to this, the most prominent being the coming into fashion of various texts. Of these, The Coming Insurrection – associated with the French journal …
The Real War (La guerre véritable)**
What we have undertaken must not be confused with anything else and cannot be limited to the expression of certain ideas or even less to what is rightly considered art. It is necessary to produce and to eat: many things …
Against the State of Emergency
This text was translated from the French by Robert Hurley and merits a statement regarding the context from which it emerged. The original article,‘contre létat d’urgence, l’urgence de prendre la rue,’ was written upon request by the French newspaper Le …