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Guy Debord, the Situationist International, and the Revolutionary Spirit (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789004402003)
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xWinner of the 2020 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award
Guy Debord, the Situationist International, and the Revolutionary Spirit presents a history of the two avant-garde groups that French filmmaker and subversive strategist Guy Debord founded and led: the Lettrist International (1952-1957) and the Situationist International (1957-1972). Debord is popularly known for his classic book The Society of the Spectacle (1967), but his masterwork is the Situationist International (SI), which he fashioned into an international revolutionary avant-garde group that orchestrated student protests at the University of Strasbourg in 1966, contributed to student unrest at the University of Nanterre in 1967-1968, and played an important role in the occupations movement that brought French society to a standstill in May of 1968.
The book begins with a brief history of the Lettrist International that explores the group's conceptualization and practice of the critical anti-art practice of d騁ournement, as well as the subversive spatial practices of the d駻ive, psychogeography, and unitary urbanism. These practices, which became central to the Situationist International, anticipated many contemporary cultural practices, including culture jamming, critical media literacy, and critical public pedagogy. This book follows up the edited book D騁ournement as Pedagogical Praxis (Sense Publishers, 2014), and together they offer readers, particularly those in the field of Education, an introduction to the history, concepts, and critical practices of a group whose revolutionary spirit permeates contemporary culture, as can be seen in the political actions of Pussy Riot in Russia, the "yellow vest" protesters in France, the #BlackLivesMatter movement, and the striking teachers and student protesters on campuses throughout the U.S.
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Author: James Trier
ISBN-10: 9004402004
ISBN-13: 9789004402003
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 07/11/2019
Pages: 466
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.85lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.00w x 1.10d
Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2020
Guy Debord, the Situationist International, and the Revolutionary Spirit presents a history of the two avant-garde groups that French filmmaker and subversive strategist Guy Debord founded and led: the Lettrist International (1952-1957) and the Situationist International (1957-1972). Debord is popularly known for his classic book The Society of the Spectacle (1967), but his masterwork is the Situationist International (SI), which he fashioned into an international revolutionary avant-garde group that orchestrated student protests at the University of Strasbourg in 1966, contributed to student unrest at the University of Nanterre in 1967-1968, and played an important role in the occupations movement that brought French society to a standstill in May of 1968.
The book begins with a brief history of the Lettrist International that explores the group's conceptualization and practice of the critical anti-art practice of d騁ournement, as well as the subversive spatial practices of the d駻ive, psychogeography, and unitary urbanism. These practices, which became central to the Situationist International, anticipated many contemporary cultural practices, including culture jamming, critical media literacy, and critical public pedagogy. This book follows up the edited book D騁ournement as Pedagogical Praxis (Sense Publishers, 2014), and together they offer readers, particularly those in the field of Education, an introduction to the history, concepts, and critical practices of a group whose revolutionary spirit permeates contemporary culture, as can be seen in the political actions of Pussy Riot in Russia, the "yellow vest" protesters in France, the #BlackLivesMatter movement, and the striking teachers and student protesters on campuses throughout the U.S.
See inside the book.
Author: James Trier
ISBN-10: 9004402004
ISBN-13: 9789004402003
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 07/11/2019
Pages: 466
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.85lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.00w x 1.10d
Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2020
By James Trier
xJames Trier, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has published articles and book chapters about representations of education in popular culture, and his first book is an edited volume titled D騁ournement as Pedagogical Praxis (Sense Publishers, 2014), winner of the 2015 American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Book Award.
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