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reviewed The Coming Insurrection by The Invisible Committee (Semiotext(e) Intervention Series, #1)

The Invisible Committee: The Coming Insurrection (Paperback, 2009, Semiotext(e))

A call to arms by a group of French intellectuals that rejects leftist reform and …

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“Power is no longer concentrated in one point in the world; it is the world itself, its flows and its avenues, its people and its norms, its codes and its technologies. Power is the organization of the metropolis itself.” I don’t agree with all of the conclusions about what to do next, but the descriptions of the problems that must be overcome here ring true. Perhaps oddly, I made connections with Emergent Strategy; the two arrive at very similar ideas about decentralization and the power of hierarchy-less organizing through very different lenses.