by Guy Debord, Translated by Ken Knabb
Bureau of Public Secrets
3/20/2014, paperback
SKU: 9780939682065
Guy Debord (1931-1994) was the founder and most influential member of the Situationist International, the notorious avant-garde group that helped trigger the May 1968 revolt in France. The Society of the Spectacle, originally published in Paris in 1967, has been translated into more than twenty other languages and is arguably the most important radical book of the twentieth century. This is the first edition in any language to include extensive annotations, clarifying the historical allusions and revealing the sources of Debord's détournements.
About the Contributors:
Guy Debord was born in Paris in 1931 and committed suicide in 1994. A Marxist theorist, French writer, poet, filmmaker, hypergraphist and founding member of the groups Letterist International and Situationist International, Debord is best known as the leading theoretician of the situationist movement. His works translated into English include The Society of the Spectacle, Comments on the Society of the Spectacle, and Panegyric.
Ken Knabb is an American writer, translator, and radical theorist, known for his translations of Guy Debord and the Situationist International.