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Introduction to Civil War, Volume 4 (Paperback)
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Introduction to Civil War, Volume 4 (Paperback)
Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series
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Activists explore the possibility that a new practice of communism
may emerge from the end of society as we know it. Society no longer
exists, at least in the sense of a differentiated whole. There is
only a tangle of norms and mechanisms through which THEY hold
together the scattered tatters of the global biopolitical fabric,
through which THEY prevent its violent disintegration. Empire is
the administrator of this desolation, the supreme manager of a
process of listless implosion.-from Introduction to Civil War
Society is not in crisis, society is at an end. The things we used
to take for granted have all been vaporized. Politics was one of
these things, a Greek invention that condenses around an equation:
to hold a position means to take sides, and to take sides means to
unleash civil war. Civil war, position, sides-these were all one
word in the Greek: stasis. If the history of the modern state in
all its forms-absolute, liberal, welfare-has been the continuous
attempt to ward off this stasis, the great novelty of contemporary
imperial power is its embrace of civil war as a technique of
governance and disorder as a means of maintaining control. Where
the modern state was founded on the institution of the law and its
constellation of divisions, exclusions, and repressions, imperial
power has replaced them with a network of norms and apparatuses
that conspire in the production of the biopolitical citizens of
Empire. In their first book available in English, Tiqqun explores
the possibility of a new practice of communism, finding a
foundation for an ontology of the common in the politics of
friendship and the free play of forms-of-life. They see the ruins
of society as the ideal setting for the construction of the
community to come. In other words: the situation is excellent. Now
is not the time to lose courage.
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