Raoul Vaneigem
Mar 19 2008 15:13
Hi. My name is Marcia. I´m brasilian and researcher on May 68, and I´m trying to get in contact with Raoul Vaneigem for an enterview. Does anybody know how can I find him? Please...
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Marcia
Mar 19 2008 15:42
#2
he isn't dead?
oh.
Mar 19 2008 16:02
#3
nah, he's definitely still alive. i'd recommend contacting an academic who's an expert on the situationists - they may be able to put you in touch.
Mar 19 2008 16:44
#4
they promised me a lifetime of leisure,
instead the labour government are cutting benefits
EDIT the situationists that is - on topic 
Mar 19 2008 17:17
#5
No, he isn't dead but must be alive somewhere (well into his 70s), He still wants a society without commodity and without money but seems to have settled for a society where money would still exist but be subordinate to "Green" values as a transition to a society without commodity or money.
At least that's what I understand from his 1996 book Nous qui désirons sans fin ("We who desire without end"):
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Beyond the society where use value will have priority over exchange value is announced a society where the free satisfaction of desires will have priority over all commodity value
and
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Market civilisation is entirely founded on forbidding anything for free. From this comes the blocks placed on our desires, on their refinement, on their harmonisation, and on the fulfilment of a human future. It was the first act of an era which is coming to an end. It will be the last when, stimulated by the gifts of our natural energies, we will have decided to no longer pay for anything at all in whatever way.
Mar 19 2008 17:43
#6
But yeh, like I said. He wasn't in Paris in May 68 so your interview might have to begin with "Why weren't you there?" and then he will throw a strop again.
Mar 19 2008 18:05
#7
He was called back to Paris from his pre-booked holidays in the south , - so was there for most of it, iirc .
He was, I think, - and may still be - an academic lecturer for a long time. But quite likely retired now.
Mar 19 2008 18:15
#8
He was interviewed by the Idler a couple of years back...
http://www.idler.co.uk/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1
Mar 19 2008 19:34
#9
what has he done for me lately?
Mar 19 2008 22:46
#10
Inspired about eight different usernames on libcom?
Mar 20 2008 11:54
#11
you may try www.principiadialectica.co.uk - they have an opinion on everything and usually know who's who and where they are at.
Mar 20 2008 12:14
#12
playinghob wrote:
you may try www.principiadialectica.co.uk - they have an opinion on everything and usually know who's who and where they are at.
Serious, I thought they were kinda fantasists from reading their magazine?
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Today, Vaneigem lives a quiet life cultivating lettuce in Belgium. After leaving the SI, Debord would only refer to him as Ratgeb. Not too long ago, Vaneigem claimed that ‘medicine is the product of illness.’ Us at Principia Dialectica have taken his pulse and our diagnosis is that he must update his radical subjectivity without further ado.
Mar 21 2008 10:30
#13
1) Principia Dialectica are a step back from everything good about the Situs.
2) "Vaneigem claimed that ‘medicine is the product of illness.’" I'm not sure I understand him, but if it means what i think it does, then surely you can agree that this is at least sometimes true. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AZT, for instance.
Mar 21 2008 11:44
#14
It would be sweet if he was actually growing lettuces, in the style of Candide but with lettuce instead of cabbages. Take that, Enlightenment.
Mar 21 2008 18:05
#15
riesel moved to the south of france to farm, natch.
Mar 23 2008 05:07
#16
Speaking of ex-situs, whatever happened to Mustapha Khayati?
Vaneigem famously went on holidays during May 68, just saying.