"At Daggers Drawn With the Existent, Its Defenders, and Its False Critics." is a critical examination of insurrection and resistance, situated in a world of simulacra, spectacle, and artifice. Although this publication was originally written two decades ago (under the title Ai ferri corti con l’esistente, i suoi difensori e i suoi falsi critici) it remains relevant, and is particularly of interest in the fervent conditions of the present situation. How do we resist if we're not even asking the right questions? And what's the point of asking questions, if we are not allowed to answer? How to we struggle for freedom, when freedom itself is being suffocated?