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  • The Joy of Revolution & Related Texts

    by Ken Knabb ...
    It may seem absurd to talk about revolution. But all the alternatives assume the continuation of the present system, which is even more absurd.Best known for his translations of works by Guy Debord and the Situationist International, Ken Knabb is himself the author of many incisive radical texts. The Joy of Revolution is widely considered his masterpiece. While there have been countless histories ... Read more

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  • The Joy of Revolution and Related Texts

    by Ken Knabb ...
    'It may seem absurd to talk about revolution. But all the alternatives assume the continuation of the present system, which is even more absurd.' Best known for his meticulous translations of numerous works by Guy Debord and the Situationist International, Ken Knabb is also the author of numerous radical texts. The Joy of Revolution is widely considered his masterpiece. While there have been ... Read more

    $7.39 USD

  • Situationist International Anthology

    by Ken Knabb ...
    The Situationist International Anthology is the most comprehensive and accurately translated collection of situationist writings in English.In 1957 a few European avant-garde groups came together to form the Situationist International. Picking up where the dadaists and surrealists had left off, the situationists challenged people’s passive conditioning with carefully calculated scandals and the ... Read more

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  • Guy Debord

    Complete Cinematic Works

    by Guy Debord ...
    Guy Debord, founder of the Situationist International and fomenter of the May 1968 revolt in France, was also the creator of six tantalizingly inaccessible films.Following the still-unsolved assassination of the films’ producer in 1984, all the films were withdrawn from circulation for nearly twenty years. In 2001 Debord’s widow Alice began rereleasing the films and asked Ken Knabb to translate ... Read more

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  • In the Crossfire

    Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary

    by Ngo Van ...
    In 1936, Ngo Van was captured, imprisoned, and tortured in the dreaded Maison Centrale prison in Saigon for his part in the struggle to free Vietnam from French colonial rule. Five years later, Vietnamese independence was won, and Van found himself imprisoned and abused once more-this time by the Stalinist freedom fighter Ho Chi Minh. Five years after that, Van was in Paris, working with the ... Read more

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  • The Society of the Spectacle

    by Guy Debord ...
    Translated by Fredy Perlman, Ken Knabb ...
    Series series Critical Editions
    'The Debordian analysis of modern life resonates more deeply and darkly than perhaps even its creator thought possible...' - The New Yorker'Never before has Debord's work seemed quite as relevant as it does now' - The Guardian'Guy Debord is a time bomb, and a difficult one to defuse.' - Michael LöwyFirst published in 1967, Guy Debord's stinging revolutionary critique of contemporary society, The ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Society of the Spectacle

    by Guy Debord ...
    Guy Debord was the founder of the Situationist International, the notorious avant-garde group that helped trigger the May 1968 revolt in France, which brought the entire country to a standstill for several weeks. His book The Society of the Spectacle, originally published in Paris in 1967, has been translated into more than twenty other languages and is arguably the most important radical work of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Society of the Spectacle

    by Guy Debord, Ken Knabb ...
    The Society of the Spectacle is a carefully considered effort to clarify the most fundamental tendencies and contradictions of the society in which we find ourselves—in order to facilitate its overthrow.Guy Debord was the founder of the Situationist International, the notorious avant-garde group that helped trigger the May 1968 revolt in France, which brought the entire country to a standstill for ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Guy Debord

    Complete Cinematic Works

    by Guy Debord ...
    Guy Debord, founder of the Situationist International, fomenter of the May 1968 revolt in France, and author of The Society of the Spectacle, was also the creator of six tantalizingly inaccessible films. Technically and aesthetically, these films are among the most brilliantly innovative works in the history of the cinema. But they are not so much 'works of art' as carefully calculated subversive ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Situationist International Anthology

    by Ken Knabb ...
    In 1957 a few European avant-garde groups came together to form the Situationist International. Picking up where the dadaists and surrealists had left off, the situationists challenged people's passive conditioning with carefully calculated scandals and the playful tactic of detournement. Seeking a more extreme social revolution than was dreamed of by most leftists, they developed an incisive ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Burnout Society

    by Byung-Chul Han ...
    Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather than improving life, multitasking, "user-friendly" technology, and the culture of convenience are producing disorders that range from depression to attention deficit disorder to borderline personality disorder. Byung-Chul Han interprets the spreading malaise as an inability to manage negative ... Read more

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  • The Crisis of Narration

    by Byung-Chul Han ...
    Translated by Daniel Steuer ...
    Narratives produce the ties that bind us. They create community, eliminate contingency and anchor us in being. And yet in our contemporary information society, where everything has become arbitrary and random, storytelling becomes storyselling and narratives lose their binding force.Whereas narratives create community, storytelling brings forth only a fleeting community – the community of ... Read more

    $14.00 USD