[P2P-F] Fwd: The Beach Beneath the Street

Fri Jul 1 21:36:36 CEST 2011

The Beach Beneath the Street:
The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International

A fresh history of the Situationist International by the author of A
Hacker Manifesto.

Over fifty years after the Situationist International appeared, its
legacy continues to inspire activists, artists and theorists around the
world. Such a legend has accrued to this movement that the story of the
SI now demands to be told in a contemporary voice capable of putting it
into the context of twenty-first-century struggles.

McKenzie Wark delves into the Situationists' unacknowledged diversity,
revealing a world as rich in practice as it is in theory. Tracing the
group's development from the bohemian Paris of the '50s to the explosive
days of May '68, Wark's take on the Situationists is biographically and
historically rich, presenting the group as an ensemble creation, rather
than the brainchild and dominion of its most famous member, Guy Debord.
Roaming through Europe and the lives of those who made up the
movement—including Constant, Asger Jorn, Michèle Bernstein, Alex
Trocchi and Jacqueline De Jong—Wark uncovers an international movement
riven with conflicting passions.

Accessible to those who have only just discovered the Situationists and
filled with new insights, The Beach Beneath the Street rereads the
group's history in the light of our contemporary experience of
communications, architecture, and everyday life. The Situationists tried
to escape the world of twentieth-century spectacle and failed in the
attempt. Wark argues that they may still help us to escape the
twenty-first century, while we still can ...

The book's jacket folds out into a poster, Totality for Beginners, a
collaborative graphic essay employing text selected by McKenzie Wark
with composition and drawings by Kevin C. Pyle.

http://www.versobooks.com/books/980-the-beach-beneath-the-street

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McKenzie Wark
Associate Dean, Eugene Lang College
65 w11th st New York NY 10011 USA

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