Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 22:54:35 +0100
Subject: Debord on Space & Time


All

Apologies for the extreme silence... in recompense the following link...

regards
sdv

Bureau of Public Secrets wrote:

> Ken Knabb's new translations of two more chapters from
> Guy Debord's THE SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE
> are now online at http://www.slip.net/~knabb/SI/debord
>
> Chapter 5, "Time and History," examines primitive societies, ancient Greece,
> the Middle Ages, millenarian movements, the Renaissance, and the rise of the
> bourgeoisie -- the entire range of human history that preceded the period of
> modern radical struggles dealt with in Chapter 4.
>
> Chapter 7, "The Domination of the Environment," examines the capitalist
> organization of social space -- urbanism as one of the main methods by which
> the ruling order is able to isolate and control people.
>
> * * *
>
> 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.
>
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