Raoul Vaneigem

An archive of texts and documents by and about Raoul Vaneigem (1934- ), a Belgian writer and member of the Situationist International best known for his 1967 book The Revolution of Everyday Life.

Raoul Vaneigem

In the cauldron of the negative - Jean-Marc Mandosio

A critique of the Situationist International, emphasizing the divergent trajectories of Guy Debord and Raoul Vaneigem, focusing on the role of…

The Communist Manifesto

Observations on The Communist Manifesto - Raoul Vaneigem

Some thoughts by Raoul Vaneigem published in 1994 as a postface to The Communist Manifesto by Karl…

The Tree of Guernica directed by Fernando Arrabal

In Conversation with Raoul Vaneigem - Hans Ulrich Obrist

Interview with Raoul Vaneigem on the future of anarchism post 2009.

Raoul Vaneigem

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…

Raoul Vaneigem

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…

The Key to Dreams - Magritte

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…

Isidore Ducasse Comte de Lautréamont

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…

Ernest Coeurderoy

'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…

Raoul Vaneigem

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…

Raoul Vaneigem

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…

Raoul Vaneigem

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.

Parisian barricade - 1871

Theses on the Paris Commune - Situationist International

The Situationists reflect on the strengths and weaknesses of a great revolutionary moment; "the…