![]() ![]() Much of this attention was due to the ninety-page book’s political context: it became a piece of evidence in a trial against nine French activists. ![]() Both the original and the 2009 English translation have received considerable attention from the media and within the radical Left. The original was authored by an anonymous “Invisible Committee” and published in France in 2008. ![]() The Coming Insurrection aims to take up the pamphlet tradition. One could look to blogs as a contemporary surrogate, but the sheer amount of writing floating around in cyberspace and the increasingly diminished attention span of readers renders them less politically potent than pamphlets past. Today, a Thomas Paine or an Émile Zola is scarcely to be found. Rather than a carefully crafted theoretical treatise, the pamphlet was short, poignant, and comprehensible to all. They were the intellectual weapon of choice when times demanded an immediate political intervention, and when literacy was on the rise. Zwarg: Symptom of a Crisis Robert Zwarg ▪ September 13, 2010 ![]()
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