Raoul Vaneigem

Revolution of Everyday Life

"This book was the starting point of the subversive current which first appeared in May '68 and is now re-emerging in the anti-capitalist movements of today. It outlines the theory, which lays bare the reasons for our own alienation from modern life."--p. [4] of cover.

The Revolution of Everyday Life

George Woodcock

Tony Gibson

Herman J. Schuurman

André Thirion

Essays Againt the Sale of Life

Never Work

Marge Piercy

An anthology of 28 contemporary anarchist fiction writers.

nouvelles anarchistes = anarchist short stories = novelle anarchiche

Subversions

Traité de savoir-vivre à l'usage des jeunes générations

Contributions To The Revolutionary Struggle - Intended To Be Discussed, Corrected, And Principally Put Into Practice Without Delay

J. F. Dupuis

A Cavalier History of Surrealism offers an unequivocal answer to the question "What was living and what was dead in Surrealism?" Though blistering in its criticism of Surrealism's artistic and political aporias, the book identifies the "radioactive fragment of radicalism" that the movement never quite managed to shed. Packed with quotations that still shock after so many years, Vaneigem's pseudonymous primer summarizes the views of the Situationists on their celebrated forerunners.

A Cavalier History of Surrealism

Handbuch der Lebenskunst für die jungen Generationen

This book by the legendary Situationist activist and author of The Revolution of Everyday Life examines the heretical and millenarian movements that challenged social and ecclesiastical authority in Europe from the 1200s into the 1500s.Although Vaneigem discusses a number of different movements such as the Cathars and Joachimite millenarians, his main emphasis is on the various manifestations of the Movement of the Free Spirit in northern Europe. He sees not only resistance to the power of state and church but also the immensely creative invention of new forms of love, sexuality, community, and exchange. Vaneigem is particularly interested in the radical opposition presented by these movements to the imperatives of an emerging market-based economy, and he evokes crucial historical parallels with the antisystemic rebellions of the 1960s. The book includes translations of original texts and source materials.

The Movement of the Free Spirit

ΕΓΚΩΜΙΟ ΤΗΣ ΕΚΛΕΠΤΥΣΜΕΝΗΣ ΤΕΜΠΕΛΙΑΣ

Eileen Myles

Elfriede Jelinek

Bice Curiger

Deftig Barock

The Book of Pleasures

Readers of Vaneigem’s now-classic work The Revolution of Everyday Life, which as one of the main contributions of the Situationist International was a herald of the May 1968 uprisings in France, will find much to challenge them in these pages written in the highest idiom of subversive utopianism. Written some thirty-five years after the May “events,” this short book poses the question of what kind of world we are going to leave to our children. “How could I address my daughters, my sons, my grandchildren and great-grandchildren,” wonders Vaneigem, “without including all the others who, once precipitated into the sordid universe of money and power, are in danger, even tomorrow, of being deprived of the promise of a life that is undeniably offered at birth as a gift with nothing expected in return?” A Letter to My Children provides a clear-eyed survey of the critical predicament into which the capitalist system has now plunged the world, but at the same time, in true dialectical fashion, and “far from the media whose job it is to ignore them,” Vaneigem discerns all the signs of “a new burgeoning of life forces among the younger generations, a new drive to reinstate true human values, to proceed with the clandestine construction of a living society beneath the barbarity of the present and the ruins of the Old World.”

Letter to My Children and the Children of the World to Come

The Totality for Kids

This book by the legendary Situationist activist is a fiercelypartisan historical reflection on the ways religious and economicforces have shaped Western culture.

General Considerations and Firsthand Testimony Concerning Some Brief Flowerings of Life in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, And, Incidentally, Our Own Time

Um dos mais importantes livros do pensamento radical moderno, A arte de viver para as nova gerações é uma crítica apaixonada ao capitalismo atual e seus efeitos na vida cotidiana. Integrante da coleção Baderna, focada em ativismo político, o livro é uma espécie de best-seller internacional da subversão, com influência decisiva no pensamento que levou aos famosos acontecimentos de maio de 1968 na França e na filosofia situacionista.

A Arte de Viver para as novas gerações

A translation of Raoul Vaneigem's autobiography, originally published in French in 2014.

Raoul Vaneigem: Self-Portraits and Caricatures of the Situationist International

'A declaration of rights is indispensable in order to halt the ravages of despotism.' So wrote the revolutionary Antoine Barnave in support of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789). Sometimes playful or poetic, always provocative, Vaneigem reviews the history of bills of rights before offering his own call, with commentary, for 57 rights yet to be won in a world where the 'freedoms accorded to Man' are no longer merely 'the freedoms accorded by man to the economy'.

On the Sovereignty of Life As Surpassing the Rights of Man

A Declaration of the Rights of Human Beings

Tom Hodgkinson

Dan Kieran

Gavin Pretor-Pinney

Jeremy Deller

Keith Allen

Chris Donald

"WHAT IS THE IDLER? HE IDLER is a magazine (well, OK, like Granta it's published in book form, so perhaps it's a 'periodical') that celebrates freedom, fun and the fine art of doing nothing. The Idler team believe that idleness is unjustly criticised in modern society when it is, in fact, a vital component of a happy life. Each issue we bring you a unique and varied collection of features, reviews, interviews, short stories, photography, cartoons, art -- and lots and lots of humour. We aim to comfort and inspire you with uplifting philosophy, satire and reflection, as well as giving practical information to help in the quest for the ultimate idle life."

The "Idler"

Guy Debord

Mustapha Khayati

Asger Jorn

Ivan Chtcheglov

After Guy Debord’s seminal Society of the Spectacle, this new compendium brings together eight other important situationist works. Ivan Chtcheglov opens proceedings via his Formulary for a New Urbanism (1953), with it’s quasi-mythical demand that resonated down through generations: “The hacienda must be built”, followed by two brief but illuminating pieces from Asger Jorn, who’s sandpaper book cover later turned up under the same Factory Records roof as Manchesters’ own Hacienda, on the Durrtti Column’s "Return of the Durrutti Column" ( the title itself lifted from Andre Bertrand's détourned pro-situ comic strip). Debord’s The Decline and Fall of the Spectacle-Commodity Economy-was an immediate, razor sharp response to the LA/Watts Riots of 1965, it’s analysis of the relationship between the rioter and the meaningless, unaffordable commodities they loot or destroy resonating heavily today. Tunisian situationist Mustapha Khayati contributes Address to Revolutionaries of Algeria and of All Countries and the game changing “On the Poverty of Student Life”, the match that arguably lit the fires of May 68’. Raoul Vaneigem's The Revolution of Everyday Life finishes things off in defiant fashion : “. You’re f*%@g Around With Us? — Not For Long!”

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