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Revolution of Everyday Life (Paperback)

by Raoul Vaneigem (Author), D.N. Smith (Translator)

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Paperback: 279 pages
Publisher: Rebel Press,London; 2nd Revised edition edition (Nov 1983)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0946061017
ISBN-13: 978-0946061013
Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 15 x 2.3 cm

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5.0 out of 5 stars a revolution indeed, 7 Sep 2006

By	Mr. M. J. Bowen "middle name : NR" (some NOT RANDOM room) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a one off. There are wonderful pages describing the "many petty humiliations we a subjected too everyday" which will resonate with people who feel herded, crammed in and degraded by mass transportation. And what is humilation but "being reduced to an object"?

Indeed, it is these "inbetween times" - riding public transport, walking down the street - which Vaneigem seeks to save from oblivion, as just time-in-transit before assuming a work-or-lesuire role. This he calls "signifying the insignifcant" and is an attempt to bring lived meaning to the most unpromising or fleeting of situations.

Much of the book, and indeed the situationist project in general, can be viewsed as a "war against roles". Veneigem says that proportional to your identiification with a role is the sense of time speeding up - getting out of roles, or rather playing/creating an unplayed one, is the way towards authenticity and reunified subjectivity.

In a world where the following phrase is overused to the point of banality let me assure that it rings true here : THIS BOOK WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Insight, polemic and revolutionary prose., 18 Nov 2001

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Written in a more accessible manner than the, also vital, Society of the Spectacle (Guy Debord) and with a more flowing, beautiful and inspiring style, this book is indespensible to any modern left-wing revolutionary.25 chapters of sparkling genius which, although not the easiest read in the world, is probably one of the most satisying and most life-changing books. A swift diatibe against the current world order of politics and economics, possessed with the urge to destroy that set of social relationships which it describes. "Be realistic - demand the impossible"

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5.0 out of 5 stars Ah, the charisma of French prose!, 12 Jan 2003

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Vaneigem writes with a polemical, lucid dignity which eluded the faux-Nietzschean (although insightful) "Society of the Spectacle." This book is a pleasure to read for its critique rather than its revolutionary solutions, and as such is a work of exciting poeticism. A great writer and an inspirational, passionate work.

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