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Overview"Exploding as politically revolutionary at the heart of the Paris 1968 uprisings, the Situationist International has proved a tenaciously compelling radical movement in terms of aesthetics and political theory. This volume presents an understanding of the revolutionary thought that inspired the Situationists and has established the Situationist movement - of which Guy Debord was the key member - as one of the most influential of the 20th century. The book sees Debord not only evaluate the movement as a whole, but also signal the end of it. For him, it had become clear that the Situationist's success had produced - within its own ranks as well as outside them - a host of fans and ""onlookers"" who amounted to little more than consumers of a radicality that had become fashionable. In this way the movement had begun to encompass the very ""society of the spectacle"" that the Situationists had challenged. There was a danger that Situationist theory could turn into ideology - Debord's reaction was to break up the movement." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Situationist International , Guy Debord , John McHalePublisher: Pluto Press Imprint: Pluto Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 12.50cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 17.70cm Weight: 0.183kg ISBN: 9780745321271ISBN 10: 0745321275 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 20 August 2003 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Undergraduate Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely Availability: Out of stock  Table of ContentsIntroduction Translator’s Acknowledgements Theses on the Situationist International and its time, by Guy Debord and Gianfranco Sanguinetti Appendices 1. Notes to serve towards the history of the Situationist International from 1969 to 1971 2. On our enemies’ decay 3. Guy Debord’s report to the seventh Situationist International Conference in Paris (excerpts) 4. Raoul Vaneigem’s letter of resignation 5. Communiqué from the Situationist International concerning Vaneigem 6. Declaration of the 11th November 1970 7. Statutes adopted at the Venice Conference on the 30th September 1969 (excerpt) 8. The détournements in the Theses on the Situationist International and its time 9. Détournement as negation and prelude (Guy Debord in issue nº 3 of the Situationist International journal, excerpt)ReviewsAuthor InformationJohn McHale has translated Alice Becker-Ho's Les Princes du Jargon, her L'Essence du Jargon and Guy Debord's Panegyrique Volume 2. He lives in London. Guy Debord was a revolutionary theorist, a film-maker, the indisputable head of the Situationists, and a key figure in the constellation of French theorists and intellectuals from the 1960s onwards. He committed suicide in 1995 at the age of 63. Identifying everyday life as the terrain of revolutionary activity, he added new and apposite dimensions to Marxist thinking in the late twentieth century. The Society of the Spectacle, his seminal work, characterised a society resting not only on the alienated labour of workers, but on the alienated lives of spectators. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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