Chris Shutes

Shutes, Chris

American situationist-inspired writer.

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Two Local Chapters in the Spectacle of Decomposition - Chris Shutes
On the poverty of Berkeley life and the marginal stratum of American society in general - Chris Shutes, 1983
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Two Local Chapters in the Spectacle of Decomposition - Chris Shutes

Situationist-influenced reflections and critique on; the Jonestown cult massacre, conspiracy theory, black leftist ideology, San Francisco in the late 1970s, disco, the Harvey Milk murder and gay culture etc...

Published by Chris Shutes in Berkeley, CA, USA; May 1979.

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"Everything is said about the spectacle except what it always & fundamentally is: the colonization of the point of view of the individual by the point of view of the collectivity." Daniel Denevert

Two Local Chapters in the Spectacle of Decomposition
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1 Dec 2007 by Ret Marut

On the poverty of Berkeley life and the marginal stratum of American society in general - Chris Shutes, 1983

A situationist-influenced text from 1983, containing critiques of Berkeley radicalism, the marginal worker, 'natural' commodities (e.g. crafts, food, medicine), the car, jogging, bureaucratic reform, Reaganism, the Black Panthers, criminality, culture/aesthetics, feminism, therapy, Robert Crumb, global class struggle in the 1970s and 80s and South Africa in particular - plus more.

ON THE POVERTY OF BERKELEY LIFE
and the Marginal Stratum of American Society in General
Chris Shutes
- May 1983, Berkeley, CA, USA. No copyright.
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Berkeley isn't ripe; it's rotten
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11 Feb 2007 by Ret Marut
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