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Titre:
The society of the spectacle

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Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith. Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's "The society of the spectacle". From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960s up to the present, the volatile theses of this book have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism and everyday life in the late twentieth century. Now finally available in a superb English translation approved by the author, Debord's text remains as crucial as ever for understanding the contemporary effects of power, which are increasingly inseparable from the new virtual worlds of our rapidly changing image/information culture.

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The city and the city

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Author China Miéville delivers an existential thriller set in a city unlike any other – real or imagined. When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates, the evidence points to conspiracies far stranger and more deadly than anything he could have imagined. Borlú must travel from the decaying Beszel to the only metropolis on Earth as strange as his own. This is a border crossing like no other, a journey as psychic as it is physical, a shift in perception, a seeing of the unseen. His destination is Beszel’s equal, rival, and intimate neighbor, the rich and vibrant city of Ul Qoma. With Ul Qoman detective Qussim Dhatt, and struggling with his own transition, Borlú is enmeshed in a sordid underworld of rabid nationalists intent on destroying their neighboring city, and unificationists who dream of dissolving the two into one. As the detectives uncover the dead woman’s secrets, they begin to suspect a truth that could cost them and those they care about more than their lives. What stands against them are murderous powers in Beszel and in Ul Qoma: and, most terrifying of all, that which lies between these two cities. Casting shades of Kafka and Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler and 1984, "The City & the City" is a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heights.

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Situation

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Situation—a unique set of conditions produced in both space and time and ranging across material, social, political, and economic relations—has become a key concept in twenty-first-century art. Rooted in artistic practices of the 1960s and 1970s, the idea of situation has evolved and transcended these in the current context of globalization. This anthology offers key writings on areas of art practice and theory related to situation, including notions of the site specific, the artist as ethnographer or fieldworker, the relation between action and public space, the meaning of place and locality, and the crucial role of the curator in recent situation specific art.

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The situationists and the city

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The Situationist International (SI), led by Guy Debord and central to the Paris uprising in May 1968, published many incendiary texts on politics and art in the journal Internationale Situationniste. One central theme to their work was rethinking the city: from a site for routine consumption and work to a utopia that breaks down barriers between function and play. In this essential volume Tom McDonough collects together all of the SI’s key essays on urbanism and the city. The book is illustrated by images that were core to the SI project. It includes such key texts as “The Theory of Dérive,” “Formulary for a New Urbanism,” and many previously untranslated texts, including those that came out of the Situationists’ collaboration with Henri Lefebvre.

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The beach beneath the street : the everyday life and glorious times of the situationist international

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Over fifty years after the Situationist International appeared, its legacy continues to inspire activists, artists and theorists around the world. Such a legend has accrued to this movement that the story of the SI now demands to be told in a contemporary voice capable of putting it into the context of twenty-first-century struggles. McKenzie Wark delves into the Situationists' unacknowledged diversity, revealing a world as rich in practice as it is in theory. Tracing the group's development from the bohemian Paris of the '50s to the explosive days of May '68, Wark's take on the Situationists is biographically and historically rich, presenting the group as an ensemble creation, rather than the brainchild and dominion of its most famous member, Guy Debord. Roaming through Europe and the lives of those who made up the movement —including Constant, Asger Jorn, Michèle Bernstein, Alex Trocchi and Jacqueline De Jong —Wark uncovers an international movement riven with conflicting passions. Accessible to those who have only just discovered the Situationists and filled with new insights, The Beach Beneath the Street rereads the group's history in the light of our contemporary experience of communications, architecture, and everyday life. The Situationists tried to escape the world of twentieth-century spectacle and failed in the attempt. Wark argues that they may still help us to escape the twenty-first century, while we still can ...

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Marcher, créer : déplacements, flàneries, dérives dans l'art de la fin du XXe siècle

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Ce livre part d'un constat : une partie de l'art actuel accorde au déplacement un rôle majeur dans l'invention des oeuvres. En ce sens elle ne fait que participer de l'histoire générale de l'art dans laquelle la figure de l'homme qui marche est essentielle. La façon cependant dont cette question est aujourd'hui traitée par les artistes est suffisamment singulière pour mériter une analyse à part entière. C'est ce à quoi s'applique cet ouvrage qui n'est pas un panorama de la fonction plastique du nomadisme mais un choix opéré à partir de recherches contemporaines (essentiellement Gabriel Orozco, Francis Alÿs, le laboratoire Stalker) exemplaires de cette question dont il met en évidence les règles et les mécanismes d'action. Apparaît alors un univers où le déplacement est non seulement le moyen d'une transaction spatiale mais également un fait psychique, un outil de fiction ou encore l'autre nom de la production. Cette cinéplastique qui fait de la ville son théatre d'opérations, ces déplacements aux multiples résonances tracent le visage d'un monde où le réel est un processus.

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The spectacle of disintegration: situationist passages out of the 20th century

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The Spectacle of Disintegration takes the reader through the critique of political aesthetics of former Situationist T.J. Clark, the Fourierist utopia of Raoul Vaneigem, René Vienet’s earthy situationist cinema, Gianfranco Sangunetti’s pranking of the Italian ruling class, Alice-Becker Ho’s account of the anonymous language of the Romany, Guy Debord’s late films and his surprising work as a game designer.

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50 years of recuperation of the situationist international

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From Occupy Wall Street activists and corporate adbusters to online hackers and guerilla street artists, the influence of the Situationist International (SI) is written large across our contemporary cultural landscape. Formed in 1957 asa merger of four European avant garde groups with backgrounds in Marxism and Lettrism, the SI would over the next decade introduce many key intellectual and artistic concepts to us. In 50 Years of Recuperation, now available in paperback, critically acclaimed author McKenzie Wark explores how our contemporaryunderstanding of art, politics, andeven reality itself has been shaped by these original culture jammers.

Titre:
Society of the spectacle

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An essential text, and the main theoretical work of the situationists. Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960's up to the present, the volatile theses of this book have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism, and everyday life in the late 20th century. This is the original translation by Fredy Perlman, kept in print continuously for the last 30 years, keeping the flame alive when no-one else cared.

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Guy Debord : un art de la guerre

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Cet ouvrage invite à découvrir la richesse la diversité iconographique des archives de Guy Debord, classées trésor national en janvier 2009 et entrées à la BnF en 2011 : correspondance, coupures de presse, carnets et fiches de lecture, objets personnels nous renseignent sur ses lectures, sur ses projets inachevés, enfin sur l'histoire du mouvement situationniste et le rôle joué par ses «compagnons d'armes», auquel le livre rend hommage à travers une galerie de portraits.