The Coming Insurrection can be an eloquent call to arms arising from the recent waves of social contestation in France and Europe. Compiled by the anonymous Invisible Committee in the vein of Guy Debord – and with equivalent elegance – it’s been proclaimed a manual for terrorism by the French authorities (who recently caught its alleged writers). One of its members even more adequately explained the group as “the name given to a collective tone of voice bent on denouncing modern cynicism and truth.” about The Coming Insurrection The Arriving Insurrection is certainly a tactical prescription for an emergent war-machine to “spread anarchy and live communism.” Created in the wake of the riots that erupted throughout the Paris suburbs in nov 2005 and presaging newer riots and general hits in France and Greece, The Arriving Insurrection articulates a rejection of the official Left and its reformist plan, aligning itself rather with younger, wilder types of resistance that have emerged in Europe around recent struggles against immigration control as well as the “war on terror.” Hot-wired towards the motion of ’77 in Italy, its preferred historical reference point, The Arriving Insurrection formulates an ethics that requires as its starting point robbery, sabotage, the refusal to work, as well as the elaboration of collective, self-organized forms-of-life. It is a philosophical statement that addresses the growing number of those – in France, in america, and elsewhere – who refuse the idea that theory, politics, and existence are independent realms.