One of the most interesting demi-myths of contemporary politics concerns neoconservatism as an intellectual movement and its rumoured leftist heritage. Oft commented upon, the Trotskyist origins of some of its early thinkers (Irving Kristol, James Burnham), and an apparent debt displayed in its evangelical policies of aggressively exported global ideological revolution, meant that for disillusioned [...]
Category Archives: Politics
The Coming Insurrection – A Point of Clarification
August 27, 2009 – 1:07 pm
The following text is the introduction to The Invisible Committee’s The Coming Insurrection, published this month by Semiotext(e) and available online as a pdf. The book was originally published in France following the riots in the Parisian suburbs, and across Europe, in 2005. Almost two months ago we posted an incredible clip of Glenn Beck of [...]
Review: The Meaning of Sarkozy by Alain Badiou
July 29, 2009 – 2:28 am
There is a moment in The Meaning of Sarkozy when prominent French philosopher Alain Badiou brings up Sarkozy’s critique of May 1968 in France. Sarkozy famously argued that the radical movement blurred the lines between good and evil; to Badiou, however, May 1968 is notable for clearly articulating differences between good and evil. This book [...]
“Everyone agrees. It’s about to explode.”
July 3, 2009 – 10:15 am
On Wednesday Fox New’s Glenn Beck launched into a wonderful tirade against The Coming Insurrectionby the anonymous Invisible Committee, a “dangerous book” about to be published in English by Semiotext(e)/MIT Press. Originally published in French in 2007, it has since been used as a crucial piece of evidence against the so-called Tarnac 9 in a controversial anti-terrorism trial in [...]
Formulary for a New Urbanism
July 1, 2009 – 7:28 am
SIRE, I AM FROM THE OTHER COUNTRY
We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun. Between the legs of the women walking by, the dadaists imagined a monkey wrench and the surrealists a crystal cup. That’s lost. We know how to read every promise in faces — the latest [...]
Why I’m voting for the Pirate Party by Lars Gustafsson
June 11, 2009 – 11:21 am
This week Sweden’s Pirate Party won a seat in the European Parliament, receiving over 7% of the Swedish vote. The party was created on the first day of 2006 with a platform based on the desire “to fundamentally reform copyright law, get rid of the patent system, and ensure that citizens’ rights to privacy are [...]
