Point-Blank! Journal (1972)

Black and white illustration of a hand holding a revolver which is pointing at the viewer

Only issue of the journal of the San Francisco situationist group Point Blank.

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Submitted by Fozzie on December 6, 2022

PDF courtesy of abstractblack: https://abstractblack.wordpress.com/2012/06/22/point-blank-journal-1972/

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Steven.

1 year 3 months ago

Submitted by Steven. on December 6, 2022

Nice! Are you in a bit of a pro-situ phase at the moment?

Fozzie

1 year 3 months ago

Submitted by Fozzie on December 6, 2022

It would seem so! Been ages since I looked at this stuff.

Steven.

1 year 3 months ago

Submitted by Steven. on December 6, 2022

Interesting, yeah been a long time since I read much of this sort of stuff as well

Fozzie

1 year 3 months ago

Submitted by Fozzie on December 7, 2022

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 :-)

Fozzie

1 year 3 months ago

Submitted by Fozzie on December 7, 2022

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.

adri

1 year 3 months ago

Submitted by adri on December 7, 2022

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.

Fozzie

1 year 3 months ago

Submitted by Fozzie on December 7, 2022

Thanks adri!

Steven.

1 year 3 months ago

Submitted by Steven. on December 8, 2022

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!