Debord on Space and Time

[anna balint]

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.


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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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