Guy Debord : revolution in the service of poetry / Vincent Kaufmann ; translated by Robert Bononno.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaufmann, Vincent.

Standardized Title:

Guy Debord. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Debord, Guy, 1931-1994.

Debord, Guy.

Radicals--France--Biography.

Radicals.

France.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xix, 345 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2006]

Summary:

In this ambitious and innovative biography, Kaufmann deftly locates his subject within the historical and intellectual context of the radical social, political, and artistic movements in which he participated.

Contents:

Introduction: A Reader without Qualities IX

1 Lost Children 1

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 79

The End of Art

Cartes du Tendre

The Poetics of the Derive

Psychogeography and Psychoanalysis

Unitary Urbanism: Between Utopia and Architecture

3 The Light Brigade 149

Means of Communication

The Poetics of Revolution

From Strasbourg to Segovia

The Greater the Fame of Our Arguments, the Greater Our Obscurity

The Last Guardian

4 Strategy 209

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 271.

Notes:

"Originally published in French as Guy Debord: la révolution au service de la poésie. Copyright 2001 Librarie Arthème Fayard"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-329) and index.

ISBN:

0816644551

081664456X

OCLC:

65165348

Publisher Number:

9780816644551

9780816644568