In Conversation with Raoul Vaneigem - Hans Ulrich Obrist
Interview with Raoul Vaneigem on the future of anarchism post 2009.
Hans Ulrich Obrist: I just visited Edouard Glissant and Patrick Chamoiseau, who have written an appeal to Barack Obama. What would your appeal and/or advice be to Obama?
Notes on the SI's direction - Raoul Vaneigem
Written by Raoul Vaneigem in March 1970 this text critiqued the movement of the SI towards pure councilism and sought to reaffirm the group's connection with the working class by applying the tactics of the Strasbourg scandal to the workplace.
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What's Free is the Absolute Weapon - An Interview with Raoul Vaneigem
An interview with Raoul Vaneigem, author of the Revolution of Everyday Life, in the Winter of 2011 by Siné Mensuel.
An interview with the former situationist by one of his old buddies
A Cavalier History of Surrealism - Raoul Vaneigem
This book, written by Raoul Vaneigem in 1970, offers a Situationist perspective on the history of the Surrealist movement and its relationship to revolutionary politics.
Author's Note
Isidore Ducasse and Le Comte de Lautréamont in the Poésies - Raoul Vaneigem
Written by Raoul Vaneigem for the Belgian academic journal Synthèses in the nineteen-fifties, long before he joined the Situationist International, this text outlines his idea that the work of Isidore Ducasse, Comte de Lautréamont, expresses the anarchist thought of the late nineteenth century.
Lautreamont entered literary history by way of his Songs of Maldoror, and, considering his having had a mastery as great as that of Isidore Ducasse, the author of the Poems, he was almost indebted to include him in it.[1] Of all the critical judgments, how many, by the embarrassment or flippancy with which they discuss the Preface to a future book, have in effect exonerated themselve
'Terrorism or Revolution' An Introduction to Ernest Coeurderoy - Raoul Vaneigem
In this introduction to the work of Ernest Coeurderoy written in 1972, Raoul Vaneigem offers his first published look back at the events of May '68 and what he considered to be the new grounds of the contemporary revolutionary struggle.
SYNOPTIC OUTLINE OF PARTS I AND II
De la grève sauvage à l'autogestion généralisée - Raoul Vaneigem
Written under the pseudonym "Ratgeb" in 1974, this text by Raoul Vaneigem was his first extensive publication after his resignation from the Situationist International. It addresses workers directly, covering the issues of the wildcat strike and the realisation of a self-managed society.
Contributions à la lutte des ouvriers révolutionnaires, destinées à être discutées, corrigées et principalement mises en pratique sans trop tarder
Nous voulons voir la vérité sous forme de résultat pratique.
Basic Banalities (Parts I & II) - Raoul Vaneigem
The complete Basic Banalities first published in L'Internationale Situationniste in the early nineteen sixties. The text was Raoul Vaneigem's first extensive written contribution to the Situationist International and its conclusions laid the basis for his most celebrated work The Revolution of Everyday Life.
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A warning to students of all ages - Raoul Vaneigem
The author of The Revolution of Everyday Life tackles the issue of education under bourgeois society and how it must be overcome.
A Warning to Students of All Ages
By Raoul Vaneigem
[Note: this pamphlet was originally published in French in 1995. It was translated by JML with NOT BORED! in August 2000.]
Chapter 1: A warning to students of all ages.
Theses on the Paris Commune - Situationist International
The Situationists reflect on the strengths and weaknesses of a great revolutionary moment; "the biggest festival of the nineteenth century".
"...it is time we examine the Commune not just as an outmoded example of revolutionary primitivism, all of whose mistakes can easily be overcome, but as a positive experiment whose whole truth has yet to be rediscovered and fulfilled."
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