To Libertarians - Guy Debord/International Friends
A text on solidarity with libertarian prisoners in Spain, written by Guy Debord and circulated under the name "International Friends". This translation taken from Not Bored!, PDF version found at azinelibrary.org.
Your Revolution Is Not My Revolution: Thirty Years After May ’68 – François Lonchampt and Alain Tizon
A complete English translation of a book first published in France in 1999, a post-mortem on May ’68, discussing the various ways that the most popular demands voiced in May were recuperated by capitalism in its post-1968 “revolution from the right” (Pasolini) and incorporated into a consumerist lifestyle of selfish hedonism, pseudo-individualism, phony libertarianism and permitted rebellion (the “triumph of situationism”) as part of the restructuring of the global workforce and the creation of a “new man”, concluding with a call for “a new civilizing phenomenon” and “a revolution of the spirit” similar to the movement led by Christianity during the decline and fall of the Roman Empire.
Anatomy of a scandal – Miguel Amorós
An account of the “Strasbourg Scandal” of 1966—widely recognized as a precursor to the greater scandal of May 1968—its background, its protagonists, the takeover of the local student union and the origins of the pamphlet, “The Poverty of Student Life…”, the role played by the members of the Situationist International in the affair, particularly Debord and Mustapha Khayati, the humiliating exclusion of the “Garnaultins” in January 1967, and the SI’s subsequent descent into an even more rigid and unapproachable sectarian existence until its dissolution in 1972.
Marginal Notes on Comments on Society of the Spectacle: Giorgio Agamben
Giorgio Agambens notes on Debords Society of the Spectacle and its follow up Comments on Society of the Spectacle.
Mémoires - Guy Debord and Asger Jorn
An influential art book by Guy Debord and Asger Jorn, first published in December 1958 by the Copenhagen SI, with a second issue in 1959. Renowned for its sandpaper cover which inspired, among others, the design for the 1980 debut album of the English post-punk band The Durruti Column, 'The Return of the Durutti Column'.
Notes on Society of the spectacle - Ken Knabb
Helpful notes on Guy Debord's seminal text, Society of the Spectacle, put together by translator Ken Knabb.
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