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Politics. Critical Theory. The first half of the book consists of two new texts. The Joy of Revolution is a series of observations on the problems and possibilities of a global antihierarchical revolution. Beginning with a brief overview of the failure of Bolshevism and the inadequacy of reformism, it examines the pros and cons of a wide range of radical tactics, then concludes with some speculations on what a liberated society might be like. Confessions of a Mild-Mannered Enemy of the State is largely concerned with Knabb's situationist activities, but it also includes reminiscences of the sixties counterculture and accounts of his Zen practice and other later ventures. The second half of the book contains virtually all of Knabb's previous publications. Beginning with his 1970 disruption of a Gary Snyder poetry reading, it includes critiques of the New Left and the counterculture; accounts of situationist groups, tactics and scandals;translations of several French texts; an appreciation of the great writer and social critic, Kenneth Rexroth; pamphlets, posters, comics and articles on Wilhelm Reich, radical Buddhists, Japanese anarchists, Chinese dissidents, the 1970 Polish revolt, the 1979 Iranian uprising; and the widely reproduced Gulf war tract, The War and the Spectacle. 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Beginning with a brief overview of the failure of Bolshevism and the inadequacy of reformism, he examines the pros and cons of a wide range of radical tactics, then concludes with some speculations on what a liberated society might be like.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe aim throughout is to bring the real choices into the open and to incite people to make their own radical experiments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Joy of Revolution, is a simple, but not simplistic, outline of why and how a non-hierarchical, non-statist society might be possible. I'd especially recommend the book for people who are vaguely sympathetic to the idea of a non-hierarchical, non-statist society but who are skeptical of how, in practice, it could ever happen. There are some pointers given and some common bugbears demolished along the way. And it is all written with that rare combination of readability and logicality and elan.\u003cbr\u003e Eugenia Lovelace - Red and Black \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51011195666705,"sku":"NIN9780995660915","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51272257306897,"sku":"GOR014213234","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0995660913.jpg?v=1750749862"},{"product_id":"situationist-international-anthology-book-ken-knabb-9798887440576","title":"Situationist International Anthology","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Situationist International Anthology is the most comprehensive and accurately translated collection of situationist writings in English.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 1957 a few European avant-garde groups came together to form the Situationist International. Picking up where the dadaists and surrealists had left off, the situationists challenged people's passive conditioning with carefully calculated scandals and the playful tactic of détournement (\"rerouting, hijacking\"). Seeking a more extreme social revolution than was dreamed of by most leftists, they developed an incisive critique of the global spectacle-commodity system and of its \"Communist\" pseudo-opposition, and their new methods of agitation helped trigger the May 1968 revolt in France. Since then situationist theories and tactics have continued to inspire radical currents all over the world.\u003c\/p\u003e This volume presents a rich variety of articles, leaflets, graffiti, and internal documents, ranging from experiments in \"psychogeography\" to lucid analyses of the Watts riot, the Vietnam War, the Prague Spring, the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and other crises and upheavals of the sixties. \u003cp\u003eFor this new edition all the translations have been fine-tuned and the bibliography has been updated to include comments on dozens of newer books by and about the situationists.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51728154919185,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51728155115793,"sku":"GOR014380725","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53615035842833,"sku":"NGR9798887440576","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53664934101265,"sku":"NIN9798887440576","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/B0CQMXMRBY.jpg?v=1751067426"},{"product_id":"situationist-international-anthology-book-ken-knabb-9780939682003","title":"Situationist International Anthology","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53003453104401,"sku":"GOR005869257","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53615563276561,"sku":"GOR005136954","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780939682003.jpg?v=1767812805"},{"product_id":"joy-of-revolution-and-related-texts-book-ken-knabb-9798887441849","title":"The Joy of Revolution and Related Texts","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIt may seem absurd to talk about revolution. 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While there have been countless histories of past revolutions and countless examinations of the many flaws of the present society and the many methods proposed for reforming them, it would be difficult to name a single book that more clearly and concisely explores the problems and possibilities of a modern, situationist-type revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFollowing a brief overview of the absurdities of the present social system and the failures of past efforts to change it, \u003ci\u003eThe Joy of Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e examines the pros and cons of a wide range of radical tactics, first in the context of \"normal\" or \"ordinary\" conditions, then in the very different context of radical situations--those rare breakthroughs where masses of people start to call everything into question and real change becomes possible. The book then concludes with some speculations on how a postrevolutionary global network of culturally diverse liberated communities might work, and where we might go from there.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor this new edition, Ken has added some notes and updates to his original work and appended a number of his more recent texts--detourned comics; book reviews; a refutation of anarcho-primitivism; reports on two remarkable radical movements in France; a series of texts and talks on the Occupy movement (in which Ken was an enthusiastic participant); observations on the coronavirus shutdown; and analyses of the increasingly vicious and delirious Trump regime and the new forms of popular resistance it has inspired.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53613144899857,"sku":"NGR9798887441849","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53664936689937,"sku":"NIN9798887441849","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9798887441849.jpg?v=1780316605"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-ken-knabb.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}