The Coming Insurrection

[Parker]

it's all a hoax, apparently.

http://www.notbored.org/pataphysical-truth.html

Or maybe the revelation of the hoax is actually itself a hoax?!

:confused:

[bcbm]

Or maybe the revelation of the hoax is actually itself a hoax?!

not really a hoax, just a joke, but one that makes some interesting points.

[Parker]

I couldn't make much sense out of it, either way.

I did have a cursory read of the book itself, after the lovely Glenn Beck had a thoughtful discussion (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKyi2qNskJc) of it on his show, and it seemed like a lot of waffle about nothing, so I am not concerned.

[bcbm]

it's a bit thick but it was basically just critiquing the hysteria surrounding the book and presenting the idea that it was something to be acted out instead of simply an experiment in words. personally i think tci is a useful text, albeit one often misunderstood by both its detractors and supporters.

[Parker]

it's a bit thick but it was basically just critiquing the hysteria surrounding the book and presenting the idea that it was something to be acted out instead of simply an experiment in words. personally i think tci is a useful text, albeit one often misunderstood by both its detractors and supporters.

do you think it said anything that hadn't already been said before?

Like I said, I didn't really read the book in-depth, so I am not really bothered either way, though it's interesting given the publicity it has had.

[which doctor]

semiotext(e) and MIT Press are scratching their heads right now

[bcbm]

do you think it said anything that hadn't already been said before?

the first sections, no. the last few sections are interesting and worth thinking about.

[Mather]

Does anyone know where the book would be sold in Britain?

[bricolage]

Does anyone know where the book would be sold in Britain?

You can buy it from amazon :)

[Parker]

Does anyone know where the book would be sold in Britain?

My guess would be the Tate Modern bookshop :D

[Kléber]

The whole thing seemed like a joke to begin with. Their platform is ideal for finely-coutured bourgeois graduate students who would rather synthesize progressive activism with a high school popularity contest, than make contacts with the lame old proletariat.

In practice, at my university, I saw what happens when an anarchist clique gets won over to TCI. It was disgusting. There is so much white bourgeois privilege hiding behind their anti-hierarchical platitudes; they have done nothing but instill division among progressives, crash the meetings of decent groups in order to stifle the growth of "reformism" (a label they use to blanket and smother any decent proposals that can attract not-yet-radicalized students, who they hate to even look at) and dull the political consciousness of those attending their "revolutionary" dance parties, where booze and weed are substituted for education and liberation, and anyone attempting to make a speech, even the clique themselves, get shouted down by drunk jeering college freshmen, who in one instance even interrupted a live reading of TCI by storming the DJ booth to put their shitty techno back on.

[bcbm]

sounds like they didn't quite get it then.

[Pogue]

Does anyone know where the book would be sold in Britain?

Buy it from Freedom Bookshop in East London:

http://www.freedompress.org.uk/news/

[Mather]

^Thanks.