Description
Book SynopsisThe definitive biography of the author of
The Society of the Spectacle and a compelling account of his war against inauthenticity.
Trade Review"This book demands attention." —
AnarchyA
Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Table of ContentsContents
Introduction: A Reader without Qualities
1. Lost Children
Origins; Scratched Negatives and the Game of Appearances; Passing through Lettrism; Having Boarded at Night the Lightest of Crafts; I wanted to Speak the Beautiful Language of My Century; The Golden Age; Bernard, Bernard, This Bloom of Youth Will Not Last Forever; My Child, My Sister...; No Turning Back; Whatever Was Directly Experienced Has Been Distanced through Representation
2. An Art Without Works
The End of Art; Cartes du Tendre; The Poetics of the
Dérive; Psychogeography and Psychoanalysis; Unitary Urbanism: Between Utopia and Architecture
3. The Light Brigade
Means of Communication; The Poetics of Revolution; From Strasbourg to Seovia; the Greater the Fame of Our Arguments, the Greater Our Obscurity; The Last Guardian
4. Strategy
The moving Surface of the River of Time; Descriptions of Battle; How to Be Disliked; Refutations; Considerations on an Assassination; Against Interpretation; Shadows, Secrets, and Mirrors; The Game of War, Gondi
Conclusion: Debord, Against Type
Notes
Bibliography
Index
