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Filmmaker and poet, urban critic and political theorist, adventurer and activist extraordinaire during Paris's May 1968 uprisings, Debord was simultaneously behind and ahead of his times. Best-known as guru of the avant-garde revolutionary movement the Situationist International (1957-72), and for a classic indictment of post-war capitalist consumerism The Society of the Spectacle (1967), Debord's life and work remains fascinating to this day.

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'Writing a good biography, like Andy Merrifield's Guy Debord, requires a balance of humility and hubris ... I recommend that anyone who reads The Society of the Spectacle also check out this biography ... Merrifield captures much of what what is left unsaid about Debord, the happiness and melancholy that are abstractly present beneath the surface of his political theories.' - Maximum RocknRoll 'This aberrant and playful book would almost certainly have pleased its subject. And for us, who have survived Debord's dire prophesies, it's like a happy accident, a flashing chance-encounter, a bit before dawn. To be read.' - John Berger

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Andy Merrifield is an educator and writer. His books include Dialectical Urbanism: Social Struggles in the Capitalist City (Monthly Review Press, 2002), Metromarxism: A Marxist Tale of the City (Routledge, 2002) Guy Debord (Reaktion Books, 2005), Magical Marxism (2011) and John Berger (Reaktion, 2012).

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