{"product_id":"guy-debord-revolution-in-the-service-of-poetry-paperback-softback-9780816644568","title":"Guy Debord; Revolution in the Service of Poetry (Paperback \/ softback) 9780816644568","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eGuy Debord\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRevolution in the Service of Poetry\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eVincent Kaufmann (Author), Robert Bononno (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816644568\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 3 December 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e368 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 14.9 x 2.5 cm, 0.526 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"This book demands attention.\" -\u003ci\u003eAnarchy\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003eA \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e Outstanding Academic Title\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eWriter, artist, filmmaker, provocateur, revolutionary, and impresario of the Situationist International, Guy Debord shunned the apparatus of publicity he dissected so brilliantly in his most influential work, \u003ci\u003eThe Society of the Spectacle\u003c\/i\u003e. In this ambitious and innovative biography, Vincent Kaufmann places Debord's very hostility toward the inquisitive, biographical gaze at the center of an investigation into his subject's diverse output-from his earliest films to his landmark works of social theory and political provocation-and the poetic sensibility that informed both his work and his life.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eInstead of providing a conventional day-to-day account of Debord's life, Kaufmann deftly locates his subject within the historical and intellectual context of the radical social, political, and artistic movements in which he participated. He traces Debord's development as an intellectual: his involvement with the lettrist movement in the early 1950s, his central role in the Situationist International from 1957 to 1971 and in the events of May 1968, and the productive and frequently misunderstood period between the dissolution of the situationists and his suicide, during which time Debord clarified the rules of his war against inauthenticity.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eAs Kaufmann makes clear, for Debord political thought and action were inseparable from aesthetics and poetic expression. Whether envisioning the recovery of a lost, protocommunist age of authenticity and transparency in \u003ci\u003eThe Society of the Spectacle\u003c\/i\u003e or critically assessing the possibility of revolution against postmodern capitalism two decades later, Debord advocated and practiced an art of defiance, a concurrently martial and melancholic poetics. Avoiding the mythologies about Debord that both admirers and critics have cultivated, Kaufmann provides a groundbreaking and generous assessment of Debord and his uncompromising struggle against a corrupt civilization.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: A Reader without Qualities\u003cbr\u003e 1. Lost Children\u003cbr\u003e Origins\u003cbr\u003e Scratched Negatives and the Game of Appearances\u003cbr\u003e Passing through Lettrism\u003cbr\u003e Having Boarded at Night the Lightest of Crafts\u003cbr\u003e I wanted to Speak the Beautiful Language of My Century\u003cbr\u003e The Golden Age\u003cbr\u003e Bernard, Bernard, This Bloom of Youth Will Not Last Forever\u003cbr\u003e My Child, My Sister...\u003cbr\u003e No Turning Back\u003cbr\u003e Whatever Was Directly Experienced Has Been Distanced through Representation\u003cbr\u003e 2. An Art Without Works\u003cbr\u003e The End of Art\u003cbr\u003e Cartes du Tendre\u003cbr\u003e The Poetics of the \u003ci\u003eDérive\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Psychogeography and Psychoanalysis\u003cbr\u003e Unitary Urbanism: Between Utopia and Architecture\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Light Brigade\u003cbr\u003e Means of Communication\u003cbr\u003e The Poetics of Revolution\u003cbr\u003e From Strasbourg to Seovia\u003cbr\u003e the Greater the Fame of Our Arguments, the Greater Our Obscurity\u003cbr\u003e The Last Guardian\u003cbr\u003e 4. Strategy\u003cbr\u003e The moving Surface of the River of Time\u003cbr\u003e Descriptions of Battle\u003cbr\u003e How to Be Disliked\u003cbr\u003e Refutations\u003cbr\u003e Considerations on an Assassination\u003cbr\u003e Against Interpretation\u003cbr\u003e Shadows, Secrets, and Mirrors\u003cbr\u003e The Game of War, Gondi\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Debord, Against Type\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52739522789656,"sku":"9780816644568","price":20.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/guy-debord-revolution-in-the-service-of-poetry-paperback-softback-9780816644568","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}