Guy Debord and the Situationist International: Texts and Documents - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262633000 ISBN 13: 9780262633000

Publisher: MIT Press, 2004

Synopsis

[( Guy Debord and the Situationist International: Texts and Documents (October Books (Paperback)) By Tom McDonough ( Author ) Paperback Feb - 2004)] Paperback

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Review:

... [A] balanced, critical view of the history of the SI.

--Geert Bekaert, Archis

This nicely produced work is an encyclopedic rendering of the SI philosophy and legacy...

--Ali Houissa, Library Journal

Synopsis:

This volume is a revised and expanded version of a special issue of the journal October (Winter 1997) that was devoted to the work of the Situationist International (SI). The first section of the issue contained previously unpublished critical texts, and the second section contained translations of primary texts that had previously been unavailable in English. The emphasis was on the SI's profound engagement with the art and cultural politics of their time (1957-1972), with a strong argument for their primarily political and activist stance by two former members of the group, T. J. Clark and Donald Nicholson-Smith. Guy Debord and the Situationist International supplements both sections. It reprints important, hard-to-find essays by Giorgio Agamben, Libero Andreotti, Jonathan Crary, Thomas Y. Levin, Greil Marcus and Tom McDonough and doubles the number of translations of primary texts, which now encompass a broader and more representative range of the SI's writings on culture and language. In a field still dominated by hagiography, the critical texts were selected for their willingness to confront critically the history and legacy of the SI.

About this edition

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0262633000
• ISBN 13: 9780262633000
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 514
• Editor: McDonough Tom