Only issue of the journal of the San Francisco situationist group Point Blank.
PDF courtesy of abstractblack: https://abstractblack.wordpress.com/2012/06/22/point-blank-journal-1972/
Files
Point_Blank_Journal_no1.pdf
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Point-Blank! Journal (1972)
There is more Point Blank and related material here, including some PDFs
https://lust-for-life.org/Lust-For-Life/IncendiaryDevices/IncendiaryDevices.htm
https://lust-for-life.org/Lust-For-Life/Situationist/Situationist.htm
(NB: there is some terrible consipiracy theory and reactionary stuff on the rest of the site)
Nice! Are you in a bit of a pro-situ phase at the moment?
It would seem so! Been ages since I looked at this stuff.
Interesting, yeah been a long time since I read much of this sort of stuff as well
The intensity and language is very seductive, but I'm not sure how helpful it is.
Maybe someone just has to attack everything though, hard to disagree with that approach at the moment :-)
Also just on a nerd level, I'd not actually seen a lot of this Point Blank! stuff before and had just read about it in other things.
Thanks for upload, interesting reading some of the contemporary commentary from New Left/communist magazines (Root & Branch etc.) from the '60s and '70s. Added searchable text to the pdf by the way.
Thanks adri!
Great stuff, Adri, thanks. But yeah I agree. Definitely there is usefulness to "ruthless criticism of all that exists", but after a while I kind of felt like I "got the point", then I felt like personally I got more from reading more plain factual/historical stuff, and stuff about workers' struggles and social movements. But it is important, and very glad to be hosting more of it here!