‘Nihilist Communism’ — A Postscript for the book by ‘the other Dupont’

Sometimes it seems funny how things go, but often, if one looks hard enough, one can see why.

In 2020, elaborating Giorgio Agamben’s pandemic perspectives, one of the two authors of Nihilist Communism wrote, without a hint of irony (indeed, one should understand that what he wrote was not meant as a joke, no matter how hilarious, overwrought, and excessive it appears):

“The function of the mask at an interpersonal level is equivalent to the enclosure of common land in the Seventeenth Century.”

(Frère Dupont, ‘I Am Not Chuang,’ published online at lettersjournal.org; can also be found online at the Anarchist Library)

It was upon reading this line, at least a year after it was published, that I realized that the whole Monsieur Dupont project, which I no longer had anything to do with, had literally fallen into the toilet and gone beyond the S-trap. I will now attempt to retrace the steps that led to Monsieur Dupont becoming lost in this eternal sewer.