reacts to everything. So then there must be some kind of trigger or lever that will suddenly turn the course of this current of violence in another direction. Or rather in a parallel direction, but on another plane thanks to a sudden shift.…The invisible revolt, the "coup-du-monde" [world coup] that Trocchi talked about, on the contrary, plays on potential. It is invisible because it is unpredictable in the eyes of the imperial system. Amplified, the fluctuations relative to t…
Alexander Trocchi
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Alexander Trocchi was a Scottish writer and countercultural figure whose concept of the "invisible revolt" figures in discussions of resistance that operate below the threshold of state capture and prediction. In the course readings, his notion of the "coup-du-monde" serves as a theoretical model for understanding how systemic change might occur through unpredictable, distributed micro-fluctuations rather than organized confrontation—a concept particularly relevant to thinking about how AI systems and imperial devices might be disrupted or redirected through invisible, non-aggregating interventions.
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