- Hardcover: 384 pages
- Publisher: University of Minnesota Press (2 Jun 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0816644551
- ISBN-13: 978-0816644551
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.5 x 2.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,907,296 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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". In this ambitious and innovative biography, Vincent Kaufmann places Debord's very hostility toward the inquisitive, biographical gaze at the center of an investigation into his subject's diverse output - from his earliest films to his landmark works of social theory and political provocation - and the poetic sensibility that informed both his work and his life. Instead of providing a conventional day-to-day account of Debord's life, Kaufmann deftly locates his subject within the historical and intellectual context of the radical social, political, and artistic movements in which he participated.He traces Debord's development as an intellectual: his involvement with the Lettrist movement in the early 1950s, his central role in the Situationist International from 1957 to 1971 and in the events of May 1968, and the productive and frequently misunderstood period between the dissolution of the situationists and his suicide, during which time Debord clarified the rules of his war against inauthenticity. As Kaufmann makes clear, for Debord political thought and action were inseparable from aesthetics and poetic expression. 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.The definitive biography of the author of "The Society of the Spectacle" and a compelling account of his war against inauthenticity.
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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.
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