The revolution of everyday life
by Raoul Vaneigem · first published 1972
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There is a grain of truth in the simplified notion that Guy Debord and Raoul Vaneigem represented two poles of the Situationist International: the 'objective' Debord versus the 'subjective' Vaneigem; Marxism versus anarchism; icy cerebrality versus sensualism. In short, The Society of the Spectacle versus The Revolution of Everyday Life - the two programmatic books of the Situationists, written independently, both published in 1967 just months before the May 1968 upheavals in France, each serving in its own way to kindle and colour that revolutionary moment. The Revolution of Everyday Life of
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on “Books That Changed My Life” ↗> hacks as the situationists. Did you read more than Debord? I find Raoul Vaneigem's The Revolution of Everyday Life easier to grasp than The Society.
on “The Society of the Spectacle” ↗In the spirit of the Situationists, I recommend "The Revolution of Everyday Life"[0] by Raoul Vaneigem. Better to have a paper copy if you're the type who gets so stimulated by observations and ideas that making notes in the margins is the only sufficiently efficient way to grok…
on “Who Was Philosopher Guy Debord?” ↗One data point: a personal fave of the Situationism "genre" is The Revolution of Everyday Life, by Raoul Vaneigem. If Society of the Spectacle is your thing, you might try Jean Baudrillard.
on “The Last Avant-Garde” ↗I think I know what you mean. Your comments remind me if an excerpt from a Situationist work, The Revolution of Everyday Life (by Raoul Vaneigem): "an obscene hobbling rhythm. In the ebb and flow of the crowds sucked in and crushed together by the coming and going of suburban trains, and coughed out into streets, offices, factories,…
on “Why Men Love War (1984)” ↗…the offices and the culture centres? Only the planners, the managers, the union bosses and the sociologists would be surprised and worried. Not without reason; after all, their skin is at stake. "THE REVOLUTION OF EVERYDAY LIFE" - Raoul Vaneigem, 1972 (Full text: http://www.scenewash.org/lobbies/chainthinker/situationist/v...)
on “Antiwork – a radical shift in how we view “jobs”” ↗…referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth" --Raoul Vaneigem, The Revolution Of Everyday Life The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. --George Bernard Shaw And…
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