The Subject of Counterrevolution

This book outlines a theory of the subject of counterrevolution, which is realized differently in various countries; various theoretical concepts shape it, its historical form meanders, and its concepts diffuse. While it corrupts all areas of life, it is talked about much less than the subject of the revolution, whose advent it permanently prevents. The book presents a picture of today's semiotic warfare: how to define, how to represent and interpret war? We say: in order to represent war, one must take sides. Those who describe war become part of war. War is an all-consuming process. It cannot be depicted from the outside. We describe the phenomenon of war in a way that conceives of us and our description as part of war and reflects this participation in the description. The semiotic theory of war is framed by a program of institutionalized art and social practice that differ sharply from bourgeois notion. Instead of autonomy and functional differentiated spheres we describe art as permeated by war. War permeates everything, and it also permeates us. The concept of art that we develop takes into account its weaponization. What is to be done? The basic question must be that of the capacity for knowledge and action. How can we distinguish between automatic processes and scope for spontaneous or organizational action, both from above and below? What mediation between reality and representation is meaningful for us? What operative images and what infrastructures that enable them do we need for a realistic picture of the revolution?