Internationale situationniste

by Guy Debord (Editor), Mohamed Dahou (Editor), Giuseppe Pinot-Gallizio (Editor)

Quatrième de couverture:
Si la théorie de I'I.S. désormais peut encore être souvent incomprise ou abusivement traduite, comme il est arrivé parfois à celles de Marx ou de Hegel, elle saura bien revenir dans toute son authenticité chaque fois que ce sera historiquement son heure, à commencer par aujourd'hui même. Nous sommes sortis de l'époque où nous pouvions être falsifiés ou effacés sans appel.

Reproduction en fac-sim. des 12 numéros de la revue de l'Internationale situationniste de 1958 à 1969.

Genres: Philosophy

722 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1972

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

[Wakinglife]

"Nitelik, niceliğin karında kaybolmaktadır"

[Tosh · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Ken Knabb translated edition is super good, but it is only a portion of the complete collection. There are also illustrations in this edition. What needs to be done is to do a complete translation of this collection - including the images in the book. It would be a dream project but important one as well.