File spoon-archives/aut-op-sy.archive/aut-op-sy_2001/aut-op-sy.0107, message 295


Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 20:31:05 -0700
From: Michael Pugliese <debsian-AT-pacbell.net>
Subject: AUT: Fw: New Debord Translation



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From: "Bureau of Public Secrets" <knabb-AT-slip.net>
To: "Bureau of Public Secrets" <knabb-AT-slip.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2001 6:53 PM
Subject: New Debord Translation


> Ken Knabb's new translation of Chapter 4 of Guy Debord's THE SOCIETY OF
THE
> SPECTACLE is online at http://www.slip.net/~knabb/SI/debord/4.htm
>
> Debord's book -- easily the most important radical book of the 20th
> century -- has been translated into over a dozen languages. There have
been
> five or six different versions in English alone. This new translation of
> Chapter 4 incorporates the best renderings from those previous versions,
but
> it is clearer and more accurate than any of them.
>
> Chapter 4 is not only the most important chapter of the book, it is also
the
> easiest to understand because it deals primarily with concrete historical
> events, revealing the practical implications of ideas that are expressed
> more abstractly in the other chapters.
>
> The topics dealt with include Hegel, Marx, Bakunin, Lenin, Lukács,
> anarchism, utopian socialism, reformism, fascism, Bolshevism, Stalinism,
> Trotskyism, the Russian revolution, the Spanish revolution, Third World
> movements, workers councils, revolutionary organization, and the nature of
> the new revolt that Debord saw coming -- the revolt that burst into full
> view in 1968, less than a year after the original publication of the book.
>
>
> * * *
>
> The Bureau of Public Secrets website features numerous texts by and about
> Guy Debord and other members of the Situationist International, the
> notorious avant-garde group that helped trigger the May 1968 revolt in
> France.
>
>
> BUREAU OF PUBLIC SECRETS
> PO Box 1044, Berkeley CA 94701, USA
> http://www.slip.net/~knabb
> knabb-AT-slip.net
>
>



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