Panegyric, Volumes 1 and 2

192 Pages·2004·6.939 MB·English

by  Guy Debord, James Brook, John McHale

$25/£16.99/$36CAN .
Guy Debord, as founding member and pivotal figure
of the Situationist International, pursued one of the
twentieth century's most arch and exciting assaults
on modern life. His 1967 Society of the Spectacle
Comments on the
(followed, twenty years later, by
Society of the Spectacle)
was a fierce critique of
late-capitalist culture and became the signal text for
those involved in the political events of May 1968
and beyond.
Panegyric
is Debord's audacious autobiography, and
here for the first time in English is the second,
beautifully illustrated volume published together with
the spare and classical text of the first. A rare
combination of poetry and precision, it tells of
something even rarer: a life that refused to adjust to
the dominant malignancies of its time.
Panegyric
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CONTENTS
Panegyric
VOLUME1
1
Panegyric
VOLUME2
69

Panegyric
VOLUME 1
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