16 results for '"Guy Debord"'

Letters by writer, filmmaker, and cultural revolutionary Guy Debord conjure a vivid picture of the dynamic first years of the Situationist International movement.Yesterday, the police interrogated me...

Guy Debord, founder of the Situationist International, fomenter of the May 1968 revolt in France, and author of The Society of the Spectacle, was also the creator of six tantalizingly inaccessible...

Astre noir de la littérature, cultivant le paradoxe et la provocation, Guy Debord ne consentit jamais à passer à la télévision. C'est sans doute pourquoi il demeure aujourd'hui plus célèbre et...

Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960s to the present,...

The author explores how certain aspects of power work in contemporary, "information-based" societies, paying particular attention to recent developments in the United States. As the process of...

A radical manifesto about doing what you loveAndy Merrifield offers a passionate tribute to the revolutionary spirit of the amateur—a figure who thinks outside the box, takes risks, dreams the...

The Reticular Society theorizes the online colonization of everyday life, diagramming capitalist society's network form while searching for the means of abolishing it. As capitalism's circuits of...

Written originally for a special issue of The New Yorker and reissued here with a new forward by the author, Within the Context of No Context is George W. S. Trow's brilliant exposition on the state...

"It may seem absurd to talk about revolution. But all the alternatives assume the continuation of the present system, which is even more absurd." Best known for his meticulous translations of...

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize“Discerning and significant.” —Poetry Foundation“A sharp memoir in verse.” —LitHubThis powerful and timely collection of autobiographical poems from Yale...

In 1962, while living in Paris, Dutch painter, sculptor and editor of The Situationist Times Jacqueline de Jong (born 1939) completed a set of 11 woodcut engravings, a medium in which she rarely...

The manifesto that launched the Situationist International (SI) into the public eye and sparked an uprising is back--with the story of its creation and the histories of its publication told like...

Long considered "the noblest of the senses," vision has increasingly come under critical scrutiny by a wide range of thinkers who question its dominance in Western culture. These critics of vision,...

The Society of the Spectacle is a carefully considered effort to clarify the most fundamental tendencies and contradictions of the society in which we find ourselves--in order to facilitate its...

Baudrillard's essential crib-book, lexicon, and companion piece to any and all of his books and a prescient portrait of our contemporary condition.“The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say,...

Greil Marcus, author of Mystery Train, widely acclaimed as the best book ever written about America as seen through its music, began work on this new book out of a fascination with the Sex Pistols:...