Tiqqun's poetic style and radical political engagement are akin to the Situationists and the Lettrists. Tiqqun is relatively accepted in the radical, philosophical milieu, the Situationist and post-Situationist groups, in the ultra-left, the squat and autonomist movements, as well as among some anarchists.
Tiqqun
36 pages, 2 colour cover, perfect-bound
Published July 2010 by Bandit Press & Shortfuse Press
“Tiqqun believes that what is true does not need to sign any name, practices anonymity like some others practice terrorism, and is in its element in all the coming forms of sabotage; it doesn’t critique society so as to improve it, but instead spreads doubts everywhere about the existence of society itself, points out the maneuvers of a faceless internal enemy, and is engaged in a permanent conspiracy against that fiction, anticipating a mass desertion of the social corpse.”
Twenty years ago, there was
punk, the movement of 77, Autonomy,
the metropolitan Indians and the diffuse guerrilla.
All at once,
as if born of some underground region of civilization,
appeared a whole counter-world of subjectivities
that no longer wanted to consume, that no longer wanted to produce,
that no longer even wanted to be subjectivities.
The revolution was molecular, the counter-revolution was too.
It saw first the offensive,
then durable,
arrangement of a whole complex machine to neutralize all that
carries intensity.
A machine to defuse all that could explode.
