Positive disintegration5/16/2023 ![]() ![]() That impudent and silly provocateurs such as McKenzie Wark are the only Unfamiliar with, newly informed of or hostile to the legacy of Guyĭebord and the other members of the Situationist International to think Situationist critique of spectacular society – would only allow those Spent many years and a great deal of effort trying to understand, enrichĪnd act in accordance with what remains vital and relevant in the ![]() Silence on the part of people like us – who have It seems to us that a response is necessary to this impudent and “To mark the launch of McKenzie Wark’s new book The Spectacle ofĭisintegration, Verso Books have offered Rhizome readers in the UK aĬhance to win a 3D printed Guy Debord action figure.” (, 17 Yourself? And Folly alone makes this possible.” Erasmus, Praise of The harm in the whole audience hissing you if you clap Shame, disgrace, reproaches and insults are damaging only in so far as “If a rock falls on your head it does positive harm, but Clark, the Fourierist utopia of Raoul Vaneigem, René Viénet’s earthy situationist cinema, Gianfranco Sanguinetti’s pranking of the Italian ruling class, and Alice Becker-Ho’s account of the anonymous language of the Romany. The Spectacle of Disintegration takes the reader through Guy Debord’s late films and his surprising work as a game designer, the political aesthetics of former Situationist T.J. Charting its post-sixties legacy and putting the late work of the Situationists in a broader, deeper context, Wark locates their contemporary relevance, as digital culture opens up new possibilities of experience and new terrains of struggle. Writer and academic Dr Richard Barbrook will give a short introduction to Wark's work and to Situationism and its relevance to contemporary culture.įollowing his acclaimed history of the SI, The Beach Beneath the Street, McKenzie Wark continues the story after the failures of May 1968. This event has limited availability, to book a place please contact: Wark, author of The Beach Beneath the Street, will give a talk at Furtherfield Gallery (London) about his latest book The Spectacle of Disintegration - Situationist Passages Out of the 20th Century. ![]() Reason #732 to Learn How to Speak French: The Guy Debord Cineaste streams McKenzie Wark presents his latest book The Spectacle of Disintegration ![]()
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