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The Spectacle of Disintegration McKenzie Wark

The Spectacle of Disintegration By McKenzie Wark

The Spectacle of Disintegration by McKenzie Wark


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Acclaimed author follows the work of the Situationist International after May 1968.

The Spectacle of Disintegration Summary

The Spectacle of Disintegration: Situationist Passages out of the Twentieth Century by McKenzie Wark

Following her 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, Rene Vienet's earthy situationist cinema, Gianfranco Sangunetti's pranking of the Italian ruling class, Alice-Becker Ho's account of the anonymous language of the Romany, Guy Debord's late films and his surprising work as a game designer.At once an extraordinary counter history of radical praxis and a call to arms in the age of financial crisis and the resurgence of the streets, The Spectacle of Disintegration recalls the hidden journeys taken in the attempt to leave the twentieth century, and plots an exit from the twenty first.

The dustjacket unfolds to reveal a fold-out poster of the collaborative graphic essay combining text selected by McKenzie Wark with composition and drawings by Kevin C. Pyle.

The Spectacle of Disintegration Reviews

Wark's readable explanation of the movement's ideas is the best I have read. -- Edwin Heathcote, In praise of 'Beach Beneath the Street' * Financial Times *
A playful, smart and occasionally epigrammatic study of the Situationists ... this brilliant account is not only an essential work for our own times; it also comes with a cover that, with the minimum of manual dexterity, folds out intoa collaborative graphic essay. -- John Burnside * Times Literary Supplement *

About McKenzie Wark

McKenzie Wark is the author of A Hacker Manifesto, Gamer Theory, Molecular Red, General Intellects and The Beach Beneath the Street, among other books. They teach at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College in New York City.

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GOR005820627
9781844679577
1844679578
The Spectacle of Disintegration: Situationist Passages out of the Twentieth Century by McKenzie Wark
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Verso Books
20130312
256
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