The Revolution of Everyday Life"This book was the starting point of the subversive current which first appeared in May '68 and is now re-emerging in the anti-capitalist movements of today. It outlines the theory, which lays bare the reasons for our own alienation from modern life."--p. [4] of cover. |
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Page 117
... domination of man by man . This repellent invention has no other raison d'être . As myth decomposes and passes into the stage of the spectacle , the Grand External Object , as Lautréamont called him , is shat- tered by the forces of ...
... domination of man by man . This repellent invention has no other raison d'être . As myth decomposes and passes into the stage of the spectacle , the Grand External Object , as Lautréamont called him , is shat- tered by the forces of ...
Page 147
... dominate the creative imagination of the Middle Ages . The symbolic theme here is plain : beneath movement lies immuta ... domination on the transformation of the world , yet refuses to transform itself . It is thus a movement wishing to ...
... dominate the creative imagination of the Middle Ages . The symbolic theme here is plain : beneath movement lies immuta ... domination on the transformation of the world , yet refuses to transform itself . It is thus a movement wishing to ...
Page 191
... domination . And herein lies freedom's first chance . The bourgeois democracies have clearly shown that individual freedoms can be tolerated only insofar as they entrench upon and destroy one another ; and now that this is clear , it ...
... domination . And herein lies freedom's first chance . The bourgeois democracies have clearly shown that individual freedoms can be tolerated only insofar as they entrench upon and destroy one another ; and now that this is clear , it ...
Contents
Translators preface | 5 |
The insignificant signified | 21 |
Isolation | 38 |
Copyright | |
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alienation artistic authentic become bourgeois bourgeoisie co-optation coherence Communards communication conditioning consciousness constraints consumer society consumption creativity cyberneticians Dada Dadaist death demands desire despair destroyed dialectic domination dreams economic energy everything everywhere exchange existence exploitation fact fascism feudal forces freedom Gilles de Rais hierarchical power human ideology illusion inauthenticity individual inhumanity isolation Jacques Vaché leaders lived experience magical means mediation movement myth nature never nihilism nihilist objects once oneself oppression passion passivity past play pleasure poetry possible principle production proletariat qualitative radical Raoul Vaneigem Ravachol realisation reality refusal reification relationships renunciation ressentiment reversal of perspective revolution of everyday revolutionary roles sacrifice self-realisation Situationist Situationist International social alienation social organisation space space-time spectacle spectacular spontaneity stereotypes struggle subjectivity subversion survival survival sickness tactics things tion transcendence transformation turn unitary unity words workers