Correspondence: The Foundation of the Situationist International (June 1957–August 1960)

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Guy Debord McKenzie Wark (Associate Professor of Media Studies, Eugene Lang College and the New School for Social Research)

Correspondence

The Foundation of the Situationist International (June 1957–August 1960)

Guy Debord, McKenzie Wark (Associate Professor of Media Studies, Eugene Lang College and the New School for Social Research), Stuart Kendall , John McHale

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MIT Press
12 December 2008

The Arts: General & Reference; Diaries, letters & journals; Cultural studies

Series: Correspondence

Letters by writer, filmmaker, and cultural revolutionary Guy Debord conjure a vivid picture of the dynamic first years of the Situationist International movement.

Yesterday, the police interrogated me at length about the journal and other Situationist organizations. It was only a beginning. This is, I think, one of the principal threats that came up quickly during the discussion- the police want to consider the S.I. as an association to bring about the destruction of France.-from CorrespondenceThis volume traces the dynamic first years of the Situationist International movement-a cultural avant-garde that continues to inspire new generations of artists, theorists, and writers more than half a century later. Debord's letters-published here for the first time in English-provide a fascinating insider's view of just how this seemingly disorganized group drifting around a newly consumerized Paris became one of the most defining cultural movements of the twentieth century. Circumstances, personalities, and ambitions all come into play as the group develops its strategy of anarchic, conceptual, but highly political ""intervention."" Brilliantly conceived, this collection of letters offers the best available introduction to the Situationist International movement by detailing, through original documents, how the group formed and defined its cultural mission- to bring about, ""by any means possible, even artistic,"" a complete transformation of personal life within the Society of the Spectacle.

By: Guy Debord
Introduction by: McKenzie Wark (Associate Professor of Media Studies Eugene Lang College and the New School for Social Research)
Translated by: Stuart Kendall, John McHale
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 29mm
Weight: 635g
ISBN: 9781584350552
ISBN 10: 1584350555
Series: Correspondence
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 12 December 2008
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: Adult education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Writer, filmmaker, and cultural revolutionary, Guy Debord (1931-1994) was a founding member of the Lettrist International and Situationist International groups. His films and books, including Society of the Spectacle (1967), were major catalysts for philosophical and political changes in the twentieth century, and helped trigger the May 1968 rebellion in France. McKenzie Wark (she/her), awarded the 2019 Thoma Prize for writing in digital art, is the author of A Hacker Manifesto Gamer Theory, andThe Beach Beneath the Street. Wark's correspondence with Kathy Acker was published by Semiotext(e) as I'm Very Into You.

Reviews for Correspondence: The Foundation of the Situationist International (June 1957–August 1960)

The pathos of these letters is that Situationism is falling apart even as it is coming together, and that, in the complicated machinations of his scattered group, Debord is able to perform as many acts of friendship as he does of malice. To borrow the title of the film he made in 1959 about his Lettrist friends, the letters trace a 'passage of a few people through a rather brief moment in time,' a tracing again triangulated by three comrades above all Pinot, Jorn and Constant. -Hal Foster, London Review of Books