The Coming Insurrection by The Invisible Committee

One site of increased interest has been the concept of biopower, despite only taking up a few scant pages in the History of Sexuality Volume 1. His unfortunate passing left a lot of questions, especially given the uncertain trajectory of his later work. The prologue to the argument I put forth in this paper begins with the untimely death of Foucault.

Resurrecting Foucault’s Forgotten Social War Texts like The Coming Insurrection are therefore, not only the extension of a hidden side of Foucault’s own work, but also provide a productive challenge to the all-too-safe reading of Foucault found in the American academy. It is my contention that Foucault has been tamed by many academics, especially by governmentality scholarship’s uncritical rehearsal of state histories that intentionally omit insurrection. In particular, through clarifying the theoretical influences of The Coming Insurrection, I challenge the current reception of Foucault’s recently published College de France lectures. Some might want to dismiss The Coming Insurrection as a vulgar or extreme interpretation of Foucault, warped for highly politicized purposes. There aren’t nine people to save, but an order to bring down.” In North America, the excessive reaction of the French State piqued early interest in anarchists and academics, then the book garnered mass appeal after the conservative talking head Glenn Beck gave an emotional review.

public meetings will be held so that the question of knowing how to react to the situation that is made for us can be posed everywhere. The government repression of the authors has only stoked a burgeoning resentment, and, as the support committees for the arrested so eloquently put it, “understanding the logic at work doesn’t appease us.

The notoriety of The Coming Insurrection has risen to almost epic proportions since the arrest of its alleged authors in November, 2008 for acts of terrorism in the sabotage of the French TGV high-speed trains lines as part of an anti-nuke direct action.

The Coming Insurrection by The Invisible Committee