Guy Debord: Revolution in the Service of Poetry
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| Rating | : | 4.95 (987 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 081664456X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-11 |
| Language | : | French |
DESCRIPTION:
Ineffable This book presents an excellent meditative epistolary reflective of radical revolt. A man literally against the totality of Western society. The book reviews one's own inauthenticity & bad faith. Read it keeping your mouth shut. Guy Debord merits this self-reflexive attitude. This book makes for the painful awareness of the complicity we all share in making this world a plastic theme park of hell. Only the Lost Children run wild and free.
Whether envisioning the recovery of a lost, protocommunist age of authenticity and transparency in The Society of the Spectacle or critically assessing the possibility of revolution against postmodern capitalism two decades later, Debord advocated and practiced an art of defiance, a concurrently martial and melancholic poetics. Avoiding the mythologies about Debord that both admirers and critics have cultivated, Kaufmann provides a groundbreaking and generous assessment of Debord and his uncompromising struggle against a corrupt civilization.. Writer, artist, filmmaker, provocateur, revolutionary, and impresario of the Situationist International, Guy Debord shunned the apparatus of publicity he dissected so brilliantly in his most influential work, The Society of the Spectacle. As Kaufmann makes clear, for Debord polit
"This book demands attention." —Anarchy