In Search of Common Ground: On Semiotext(e) and Schizo-Culture

The revolution will not be televised. But The Coming Insurrection was. Originally published in France in 2007, the small booklet, written by the anonymous Comité invisible, was denounced as a manual for terrorism by the French government. It became a key piece of evidence against nine activists arrested in a raid in the small commune of Tarnac. The “Tarnac 9” were allegedly planning to bomb train lines. Among them was one of the text’s alleged authors, Julien Coupat. In July 2009, shortly after the English translation of the book was published by Semiotext(e),¹ it was “reviewed” by Glenn Beck on