French Literature Reviews - 2026

Tiqqun, Contribution à la guerre en cours
Philosophy, Anthropology and Ideas

Tiqqun, Contribution à la guerre en cours

Éditions La Fabrique

200 pages - 12 euros
ISBN9782913372931

Just as trade union bureaucrats fear nothing more than the effective emancipation of workers, intellectuals have no worse enemy than the truth, which puts them out of work. Nowadays, their function is rather to accompany with their chatter the creation of events—such as "September 11" or, presently, "the crisis"—through which the Empire justifies the accelerated implementation of its planetary apparatuses. There is, naturally, another use of intelligence. Its productions are easily recognized: the era honors them with its wounded silence. No one has thought to flatter Tiqqun—least of all its own partisans—for having grasped with such premonitory lucidity the physiognomy of our time, its lines of force and points of weakness. Being right is a small matter. The whole point is to act accordingly. Yet this is precisely what has made Tiqqun, for the past ten years, something quite different from a review—one whose appearance has been erratic enough to make one think it defunct: a piece in a plane of consistency that has continually unfolded, in extension, depth, and intensity. That lives have bound themselves to what was recognized therein as true is an insult to reigning cynicism sufficient for the State to treat you henceforth as a "terrorist".

Tiqqun
A conscious fraction of the Imaginary Party, Tiqqun believes that what is true has no need to sign itself with a name, practices anonymity the way others practice terrorism, is in its element in all future forms of sabotage, does not criticize "society" to make it better, spreads doubt everywhere as to its existence, bears witness to the maneuvers of a faceless internal enemy engaged in a permanent conspiracy against this fiction, and anticipates a mass desertion out of the social corpse.

Presentation of the work by Giorgio Agamben (Contretemps and Nonfiction)

This text belongs to the tradition of radical French political philosophy and critique associated with autonomous movements at the turn of the twenty-first century. Works within this current often interrogate the mechanisms of late capitalism, state power, and modern alienation, drawing on lineages of critique that question institutional authority and normative social structures. Such writings frequently examine how contemporary governance operates through diffuse apparatuses often termed Empire, seeking to diagnose the systemic conditions of modern civic life while proposing modes of philosophical and political disengagement from prevailing structures.

Readers interested in contemporary French radical thought, theories of political resistance, and critiques of modern governance may find this volume relevant to their inquiries.