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The Spectacle of Disintegration - Situationist Passages out of the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
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The Spectacle of Disintegration - Situationist Passages out of the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
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Following his acclaimed history of the Situationist International
up until the late sixties, The Beach Beneath the Street, McKenzie
Wark returns with a companion volume which puts the late work of
the Situationists in a broader and deeper context, charting their
contemporary relevance and their deep critique of modernity. Wark
builds on their work to map the historical stages of the society of
the spectacle, from the diffuse to the integrated to what he calls
the disintegrating spectacle. 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,
Rene 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.At once an extraordinary
counter history of radical praxis and a call to arms in the age of
financial crisis and the resurgence of the streets, The Spectacle
of Disintegration recalls the hidden journeys taken in the attempt
to leave the twentieth century, and plots an exit from the twenty
first. The dustjacket unfolds to reveal a fold-out poster of the
collaborative graphic essay combining text selected by McKenzie
Wark with composition and drawings by Kevin C. Pyle.
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