To go on waiting is madness

It’s useless to wait for a breakthrough, for the revolution, the nuclear apocalypse or a social movement. To go on waiting is madness. The catastrophe is not coming, it is here. We are already situated within the collapse of a civilization. It is within this reality that we must choose sides.

—The Invisible Committee, The Coming Insurrection, Semiotexte(e), 2009, p. 88, cited in Srećko Horvat, Poetry from the Future, (London: Allen Lane, 2019), 107.

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