Correspondance: Volume "0": Septembre 1951 - Juillet 1957

Correspondance #0

by Guy Debord

Comme annoncé depuis le début de leur publication, ce dernier volume (augmenté d'un index des noms cités) - qui va de 1951 à la fondation de l'internationale situationniste en 1957 - précède chronologiquement les sept volumes déjà publiés de la Correspondance de Guy Debord. Ont été regroupés, en annexe, des rectificatifs, mais avant tout de nombreuses "lettres retrouvées" - le plus souvent d'ailleurs auprès de leurs propres destinataires ou ayants droit. Signalons que l'Etat français, qui s'est, depuis 2009, porté acquéreur de l'ensemble des "Archives Guy Debord", les a, de surcroît, classées au rang exceptionnel de Trésor national.

400 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2010

About the author

Guy Ernest Debord was a French theorist, writer, filmmaker, hypergraphist and founding member of the groups Lettrist International and Situationist International. In broad terms, Debord's theories attempted to account for the spiritually debilitating modernization of the private and public spheres of everyday life by economic forces during the post-WWII modernization of Europe. Alienation, Debord postulated, could be accounted for by the invasive forces of the 'spectacle'—"a social relation between people that is mediated by images." Central to this school of thought was the claim that alienation is more than an emotive description or an aspect of individual psychology; rather, it is a consequence of the mercantile form of social organization which has reached its climax in capitalism. Debord committed suicide, shooting himself in the heart at his property on November 30, 1994.

Reviews

[Mehdi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some interesting letters, but 80% are very tactical in nature (fixing meeting times, inquiring about the printing of a brochure, etc.). Exhaustiveness has its drawbacks.

[Philippe Billé · Rating 2 out of 5]

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