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 France, with the accused having received support from a myriad of intellectuals including Judith Butler, Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, Giorgio Agamben (whose work, particularly The Coming Community, has been influential for the group), and more.  Over a month before the book is actually published, an unauthorized launch at the Union Square Barnes & Noble a few weeks ago came to the attention of the NY Times.

Europe is on the brink of social collapse and/or revolution while the Japanese are forming unions!  While Beck was trying to work his viewers into a frenzy over the growing danger of the ultra-left, his rant was an incredible advertisement for the book, which I immediately download as a pdf here.  As Savonarola at the Institute for Conjectural Research put it to me in an email: “As Neocons go dada, detourning the detourners – my mind is blown. Is Glenn Beck part of some kind of situationist ’sleeper cell’?”

I haven’t gotten a chance to read the actual book yet, but Alberto Toscano’s analysis and critique from the journal Radical Philosophy, which also provides a history of the court case, is highly recommended.