Spectacle of Disintegration Situationist Passages Out of the Twentieth Century

Name: Spectacle of Disintegration Situationist Passages Out of the Twentieth Century
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ISBN: 9781844679577

ISBN-10: 1844679578

ISBN-13: 9781844679577

Edition: 2013

Authors: McKenzie Wark, Kevin C. Pyle

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Following his acclaimed history of the Situationist International up until the late sixties, The Beach Beneath the Street, McKenzie Wark returns with a companion volume which puts the late work of the Situationists in a broader and deeper context, charting their contemporary relevance and their deep critique of modernity. Wark builds on their work to map the historical stages of the society of the spectacle, from the diffuse to the integrated to what he calls the disintegrating spectacle. The Spectacle of Disintegration takes the reader through the critique of political aesthetics of former Situationist T.J. Clark, the Fourierist utopia of Raoul Vaneigem, René Vienet’s earthy situationist…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 3/12/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 5.70" wide x 8.50" long x 0.95" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

McKenzie Wark is Associate Professor of Cultural and Media Studies at Eugene Lang College and The New School for Social Research. He is the author of several books, most recently Dispositions.




Widening Gyres



The Critique of Everyday Life



Liberty Guiding the People



The Spectacle of Modern Life



Anarchies of Perception



The Revolution of Everyday Life



Dï¿½tournement as Utopia



Charles Fourier's Queer Theory



The Ass Dreams of China Pop



Mao by Mao



The Occulted State



The Last Chance to Save Capitalism



Anti-Cinema



The Devil's Party



Guy Debord, His Art and Times



A Romany Detour



The Language of Discretion



Game of War



The Strategist



The Inhuman Comedy


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index