Guy Debord

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Overview

Though well-known for his founding of the avant-garde Situationist International movement and his prominent political and cultural activism, Guy Debord was nonetheless a surprisingly elusive and enigmatic figure, spending his last years in an isolated farmhouse in Champot, France. Andy Merrifield's Guy Debord pushes back the farmhouse shutters and opens a window onto Debord's life, theory, and art.

Merrifield explores the dynamics of Debord's ideas and works, including the groundbreaking Howls for Sade and his 1967 classic, The Society of the Spectacle. Debord understood life as art, Merrifield argues, and through that lens he chronicles Debord's stint as a revolutionary leader in the 1950s and 1960s, his time in Spain and Italy during the 1970s and the reclusive years leading up to his death in 1994.

Dada and Surrealism's legacy and punk rock's god, Guy Debord spun theories on democracy, people, and political power that still resonate today, making Merrifield's concise yet comprehensive study an invaluable resource on one of the foremost intellectual revolutionaries of the twentieth century.

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Editorial Reviews

Maximum Rock N Roll

"A good biography . . . captures Debord's fascination with plumbing history in an effort to supersede the present. . . . For a peek into what made this brilliant revolutionary tick, read Merrifield's book."--Maximum Rock N Roll

— Stuart Schrader

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781861892614
  • Publisher: Reaktion Books, Limited
  • Publication date: 12/23/2005
  • Series: Critical Lives Series
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Pages: 224
  • Sales rank: 1,280,387
  • Product dimensions: 5.00 (w) x 7.88 (h) x 0.40 (d)

Meet the Author

Andrew Merrifield is the author of The Urbanization of Injustice, Dialectical Urbanism: Social Struggles in the Capitalist City, and Metromarxism: A Marxist Tale of the City.

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Table of Contents

1. Eyes for Blowing Up Bridges

2. The Café of Lost Youth

3. It Never Said Anything Extreme

4. Aesthete of Subversion

5. I am Not Somebody Who Corrects Himself

6. Land of Storms

 

References

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Acknowledgements

Photo Acknowledgements

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