With the caveat that everyone's tastes are different and one person's great writing is another person's flowery nonsense, but I'd recommend at least trying that one if you haven't already.Ĭontributions to The Revolutionary Struggle, Intended To Be Discussed, Corrected, And Principally, Put Into Practice Without Delay and Instructions for an Insurrection are two other short ones that stick in my head.
Famous for his 1967 book The Society of Spectacle, which theorizes on the numbing imagery capitalism. Revolution of Daily Life is a whole lot longer than SotS, much more of a proper book, but on the other hand I think Vaneigem's writing style is a whole lot easier and more fun than Debord's. Destroying the Spectacle: The Films of Guy Debord. Spectacular Times would probably be my #1 recommendation for a nice, short, very readable introduction to situationist perspectives. Other suggestions for possibly easier starting points for getting to grips with the sits: I'd say it's a brilliant updating of revolutionary theory to the conditions of mid-20th capitalism, but of course not all of that is going to be relevant today. The spectacle is a concept thats very swanky to talk about in dinner parties like George Orwells 1984, but it is often simplified and, ironically enough, objectified by its debaters. The suggestion about starting off with Chapter 4 is a good one.
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