Revolution of Everyday Life

Name: Revolution of Everyday Life
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ISBN: 9781604866780

ISBN-10: 1604866780

ISBN-13: 9781604866780

Edition: 2nd 2012

Authors: Raoul Vaneigem, Donald Nicholson-Smith

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One of the most important exponents of Situationist ideas, this treatise presents an impassioned critique of modern capitalism and serves as a cornerstone of modern radical thought. Originally published in early 1968, the book both kindled and colored the May 1968 upheavals in France that captured the attention of the world. In the political climate of today, Raoul Vaneigem’s important work of radical anticapitalist thought has struck a new chord with the worldwide Occupy Movement. Naming and defining the alienating features of everyday life in consumer society—survival rather than living in full, the call to sacrifice, the cultivation of false needs, the dictatorship of the commodity,…

Book details

List price: $30.50
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: PM Press
Publication date: 10/15/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Translator's Acknowledgements


Author's Preface to the Present Edition


The Revolution of Everyday Life


Introduction



Power's Perspective



The Insignificant Signified


The Impossibility of Participation: Power as Sum of Constraints



Humiliation



Isolation



Suffering



The Decline of Work



Decompression and the Third Force


The Impossibility of Communication: Power as Universal Mediation



The Age of Happiness



Exchange and Gift



Technology and Its Mediated Use



The Reign of Quantity



Mediated Abstraction and Abstracted Mediation


The Impossibility of Fulfilment: Power as Sum of Seductions



Sacrifice



Separation



The Organization of Appearances



Roles



The Fascination of Time


Survival and Its Pseudo-Negation



Survival Sickness



Unbuttressed Refusal



Reversal of Perspective



Reversal of Perspective



Creativity, Spontaneity and Poetry



Masters Without Slaves



The Space-Time of Lived Experience and the Rectification of the Past



The Unitary Triad: Fulfilment, Communication, Participation



The Interworld and the New Innocence



You Won't Fuck with Us Much Longer!


Postscript (1972): A Toast to Revolutionary Workers



Author's Preface to the First French Mass-Market Edition (1992)



Concerning the Translation


Index