The Coming Insurrection is an eloquent call to arms arising from the recent waves of social contestation in France and Europe. Written by the anonymous Invisible Committee in the vein of Guy Debord—and with comparable elegance—it has been proclaimed a manual for terrorism by the French government (who recently arrested its alleged authors). One of its members more adequately described the group as “the name given to a collective voice bent on denouncing contemporary cynicism and reality.” The Coming Insurrection is a strategic prescription for an emergent war-machine to “spread anarchy and live communism.”?Written in the wake of the riots that erupted throughout the Paris suburbs in the fall of 2005 and presaging more recent riots and general strikes in France and Greece, The Coming Insurrection articulates a rejection of the official Left and its reformist agenda, aligning itself instead with the younger, wilder forms of resistance that have emerged in Europe around recent struggles against immigration control and the “war on terror.”?Hot-wired to the movement of ‘77 in Italy, its preferred historical reference point, The Coming Insurrection formulates an ethics that takes as its starting point theft, sabotage, the refusal to work, and the elaboration of collective, self-organized forms-of-life. It is a philosophical statement that addresses the growing number of those—in France, in the United States, and elsewhere—who refuse the idea that theory, politics, and life are separate realms.
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Posted on 2:25 AM by Maki Cabrera
Again I came home late,last night.Better late than never!!And as usual my parents would have headaches apiece when I'm out in the metropolis late at night.I made them totally worried and all.Well,I've been a late comer since ,but didn't realized that I can be late twice in a row,Not until now.And as usual,my first stop (my favorite part)-to the kitchen.GREAT!! I had had a decent meal-burp!!
After the late supper,I sat down the chair next to the study table.On my right are books.Old classical novels,magazines,academic books,math,algebra,science,dictionary,encyclopedia and all those crappy stuff I had already red.And will read them again and again for the sake of escaping boredom.There was a great pause,as my eyeballs wandered the corners of the house.Sighed and yawned.BOREDOM!!!here we go again.Aside from reading another of my pastime is drawing.But i don't feel like it so I grab a book from the shelf.A 1962 book by William Edmund Barrett entitled "THE LILIES OF THE FIELD".
Well, i haven't got a single flip from this book.I didn't hesitated because I didn't like "religious" books and all that stuff.Its not that I have anything against religious stuff,God and all in that row.Its just that I don't feel like reading them.Well, I'm not even quite sure if it's a religious book or what.Notwithstanding the illustration ion the cover.There was a black guy on the roof a chapel and nuns waving below.UGH!whatever..I ended up reading the book.It's not that thick either.Hours would do.But it's late at night,more like 11:00.After reading the first chapter I craved for the rest six chapters left.
Book Review:
The book is about a negro named HOMER SMITH and her German Nuns.He passed by the working nuns.When Old Mother Maria Marthe hired him of working.He agreed but he thought he'll be fixing the roof and all there was.The nun hired him not just for that.SHE WANTS HIM TO BUILD THEM A CHAPEL."Schmidt!" the east German old mother Maria Marthe calls SMITH."Ja!" kidded Smith.He did not agreed and decided to get his pay and leave,but there's something...Something that forced him to do so.Something he couldn't be regretful of but.THERES A BIG MYSTERIOUS BUT.He worked on the chapel,had breakfast,lunch and dinner with the nuns,played music with them,taught them English lessons and drove them into the Mass every Sunday.FYI, Homer's a baptist.You might as well find out for yourself what had happened or how it ended.Of course..I'm not gonna tell you that!Well,my favorite part of the story was when Homer Smith angrily and desperately forces Mother Maria Marthe to lend him his money(he'd worked for).Mother Maria couldn't understand what Schmidt is talking about?Homer finally went to his automobile and got a bible.He tries to persuade Mother Maria by quoting a bible verse but Mother Maria responds with a verse saying, "Look at the lilies of the field, they continue to appear beautiful even though they get no payment. The bloom is to honor God, but not to get paid for their work.." Sigh! I love it.
FACTS
Did you know that this novel had reached and got people touched on the silver screen!!?
(this proves it's worth readin)I'd rather read than see the movie..the movie is way like-oldies.BLACK & WHITE!say it with me.Black & WHITE.You can say that again.So for bookworms, this is highly recommended.
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