Tiqqun
Tiqqun is the name of a French leftist philosophical journal, founded in 1999 with an aim to "recreate the conditions of another community." It was created by various writers before dissolving in Venice, Italy in 2001 following the attacks of September 11, 2001. Tiqqun was the object of some interest in the media after the arrest of Julien Coupat, one of its founders. The journal was short-lived; only two issues were produced.
Tiqqun is also, more generally, the name of the philosophical concept which stems from these texts, and is often used in a broad sense to name the many publications containing the journal's texts, in order to designate, if not a specific author, at least "a point of spirit from which these writings come."
Tiqqun became better known to an American audience in 2009 and 2010 after Glenn Beck featured commentary on the English edition of The Coming Insurrection in his media broadcasts.
Articles
Eleven articles were published in the journal's first issue, and ten articles were published in its second issue. Additionally, nine smaller pieces were interspersed between each of the second issue's ten main articles; these latter were two-page spreads with black backgrounds. In all, thirty items were published in the journal, listed below.| Issue | French Title | English Title | Page No. |
| Tiqqun #1 | Eh bien, la guerre! | Well, War! | 3 |
| Tiqqun #1 | Qu'est-ce que la Métaphysique Critique? | What is Critical Metaphysics? | 7 |
| Tiqqun #1 | Théorie du Bloom | Theory of Bloom | 23 |
| Tiqqun #1 | Phénoménologie de la vie quotidienne | Phenomenology of Everyday Life | 46 |
| Tiqqun #1 | Thèses sur le Parti Imaginaire | Theses on the Imaginary Party | 50 |
| Tiqqun #1 | Le silence et son au-delà | Silence and Beyond | 72 |
| Tiqqun #1 | De l'économie considérée comme magie noire | Economy as Black Magic | 80 |
| Tiqqun #1 | Premiers matériaux pour une théorie de la Jeune-Fille | Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl | 94 |
| Tiqqun #1 | Hommes-machines, mode d'emploi | Machine-Men: a User's Guide | 127 |
| Tiqqun #1 | Les métaphysiciens-critiques sous le «mouvement des chômeurs» | Critical Metaphysicians behind the "Movement of the Unemployed" | 137 |
| Tiqqun #1 | Quelques actions d'éclat du Parti Imaginaire | A Few Scandalous Actions of the Imaginary Party | 146 |
| Tiqqun #2 | Introduction à la guerre civile | Introduction to Civil War | 2 |
| Tiqqun #2 | Dernier avertissement au parti imaginaire | Final Warning to the Imaginary Party | 38 |
| Tiqqun #2 | L'hypothèse cybernétique | The Cybernetic Hypothesis | 40 |
| Tiqqun #2 | Les vainqueurs avaient vaincu sans peine | The Conquerors had Won Easily | 84 |
| Tiqqun #2 | Thèses sur la communauté terrible | Theses on the Terrible Community | 86 |
| Tiqqun #2 | Tout mouvement excède | All Movements Exceed | 112 |
| Tiqqun #2 | Le problème de la tête | The Problem of the Head | 114 |
| Tiqqun #2 | Ceux qui ne veulent pas du progrès, le progrès ne veut pas d'eux | Progress doesn't want Those who don't want Progress | 128 |
| Tiqqun #2 | «Une métaphysique critique pourrait naître comme science des dispositifs...» | "A Critical Metaphysics could be Born as a Science of Apparatuses..." | 130 |
| Tiqqun #2 | Halte à la domestiCAFion! | Stop DomestiCAFtion! | 160 |
| Tiqqun #2 | Rapport à la S.A.S.C. concernant un dispositif impérial | Report to the S.A.S.C. Concerning an Imperial Apparatus | 162 |
| Tiqqun #2 | Notes sur le local | Notes on the Local | 176 |
| Tiqqun #2 | Le petit jeu de l'homme d'Ancien Régime | The Little Game of the Man of the Ancien Régime | 178 |
| Tiqqun #2 | On a toujours l'âge de déserter | You're Never Too Old to Ditch Out | 192 |
| Tiqqun #2 | Échographie d'une puissance | Ultrasound of a Power | 194 |
| Tiqqun #2 | Bonjour! | Hello! | 234 |
| Tiqqun #2 | Ceci n'est pas un programme | This is Not a Program | 236 |
| Tiqqun #2 | Ma noi ci saremo | But We Will Be There | 272 |
| Tiqqun #2 | Comment faire? | How should it be done? | 278 |
Authorship
Tiqqun's articles are not credited to individual authors; rather, they are simply attributed to the journal's namesake. However the first issue's back cover contained a masthead which listed the issue's editorial board as Julien Boudart, Fulvia Carnevale, Julien Coupat, Junius Frey, Joël Gayraud, Stephan Hottner and Rémy Ricordeau.Origin and use of the name
The name of the journal comes from the great importance that the writers give to the philosophical concept of Tiqqun. It is the French transcription of the original Hebrew term Tikkun olam, a concept issuing from Judaism, often used in the kabbalistic and messianic traditions, which simultaneously indicates reparation, restitution, and redemption. It has also come to designate, more broadly, a contemporary Jewish conception of social justice.Affiliations
Tiqqun’s poetic style and radical political engagement are akin to the Situationists and the Lettrists. Tiqqun has influenced radical political and philosophical milieus, post-Situationist groups, and other elements of ultra-left, squat and autonomist movements, as well as some anarchists. Tiqqun’s themes and concepts are strongly influenced by the work of the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben, who in turn wrote a public editorial supporting Coupat's due process legal rights.English translations
Selected articles from Tiqqun have been translated into a variety of languages and released as standalone books. Following is a list of English editions.- . Los Angeles: Semiotext, 2010.. This volume, part of Semiotext's Intervention series, contains the texts "Introduction to Civil War" and "How Is It To Be Done?", which were originally published in issue 2 of Tiqqun.
- . Los Angeles: Semiotext, 2011.. This volume, which is also a part of Semiotext's Intervention series, contains the texts "This Is Not a Program" and "A Critical Metaphysics Could Be Born as a Science of Apparatuses," which were originally published in issue 2 of Tiqqun.
- Publisher unknown, 2011. No ISBN. This "faithful reproduction, in English, of the original release of Tiqqun #1" is distributed by Little Black Cart books, an anarchist book distribution project.
- . LBC Books, 2012.. First published in France in 2004.
- . Los Angeles: Semiotext, 2012.. First published in France in 1999.
- Los Angeles: Semiotext, 2020.. Originally published in French in issue 2 of Tiqqun.