A SITUATIONIST BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Debord, Guy. The Society of the Spectacle. Detroit: Black & Red, 1983.

  Society of The Spectacle (black and red, paper, 221 pp) $4.50. First published in france in 1967, this amazing work critiques society and everyday life as "spectacle," stating that we are mediated not only from one another but from our own lives by a social relation of images that serves to dominate and discipline our lives; rather than living our lives, we "watch " as passive spactators. This book, along with vaneigem's Revolution of everyday life and the pamphlet "On the Poverty of Student Life" served to galvanize French students in the late 60s and had a direct impact upon the May 68 uprising.

• Vaneigem, Raoul. The Revolution of Everyday Life. London: Left Bank Books and Rebel Press, 1983.

  the revolution of everyday life (left bank/rebel press, paper, 216 pp) $11.95. The classic complement to debord's society of the spectacle, vaneigem examines the minutia of power as "abstracted mediation and mediated abstraction" that permeates everyday life and the means of seizing control of our lives and truly living.

• Vie'net, Rene'. Enrage's and Situationists in the Occupations Movement, May-June 1968. New York: Autonomedia, 1990.
• Situationist International. The Veritable Split in the International. London: Chronos Press, 1990.

  The veritable Split In The International (Chronos, paper, 138 pp) $14.95. The publication that ended the Situationist International in 1972, this book contains the "These on the SI and its Time" by debord and Sanguinetti, by then the only remaining members.

• Situationist International Anthology. Ed. Ken Knabb. Berkeley: Bureau of Public Secrets, 1981.

  Situationist inernational anthology (jBoPS, paper, 406 pp) $15.00. A massive collection of articles and excerpts from the full run of the journal INTERNATIONALE SITUATIONNISTE, including pre-SI lettrist material and documents from the May 68 uprising.

• Debord, Guy. Comments on the Society of the Spectacle. London: Verso,1991.

  Comments on the society of the spectacle (verso, paper, 94pp) $14.95. Guy Debord's 1988 self-critique of his classic work, bringing it with surprising force into the 80s and 90s.

• Ibid. Panegyric. London: Verso, 1991.

  panegyric (verson, paper, 79 pp) $13.95 The first volume of debord's autobiography.

• Plant, Sadie. The most radical gesture: The Situationist International in a postmodern age (London: Routledge, 1992).
• Situationist International, On the Poverty of Student Life (Reprint of English translation of French edition of 1966)

  SITUATIONIST INTERNATIONAL. on the poverty of student life (dark star/rebel press, pamphlet, 32pp) $1.95. Classic pamphlet of the mid-late 60s in france that received direct condemnation by authorities and fanned the flames of discontent among student radicals.

Some other misc. Situationist works:

• KNABB, ken. The Bureau of Public Secrets (BoPS, pamphlets, 39pp) $2.00. The first issue of the california-based pro-situ journal from the early 70s.
• The realization and suppression of religion (BoPS, pamphlet, 15pp) $1.00. A situationist critique of religion, including digs at the ego-maniacs in the SI.
• The relevance of rexroth (BoPS, paper, 88pp) $5.00. A situationist biographical examination of kenneth rexroth, the important anarchist poet of the twentieth century.
• SANGUINETTI, Gianfranco. On terrorism and the state (Chronos, paper, 101 pp) $7.00. According to Sanguinetti, terrorism and the state are two sides of the same spectacle, each complementing and reinforcing the other, with the state making use of terrorism to strengthen its position of domination.
• VANEIGEM, raoul. the book of pleasures (Pending press, paper, 105 pp) $11.95. "All pleasure is creative if it avoids exchange. Loving what pleases me, I have to build a space in life exposed as little as possible to pollution by business, or i will not find the strenght to bring the old world down, and the fungus among us will rot my dreams. while the state is in disarray, strike hard at business and its friends. doing exactly what you feel like is pleasure's greatest weapon, connecting individual acts with collective practice; we all do it. if rejecting survival made the l968 movement, taking hold of life will open the era of universal self-management."
• WOLLEN , Peter, et al. On the passage of a few people through a rather brief moment in time (MIT Press, paper, 200 pp) $14.95. This book contains essays by guy debord, greil marcus and thoman levin, as well as original texts, photographs, comics, film still and color plates of the situationist work organized in late 1989 and early 1990. an excellent compilation.

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