Writer, filmmaker, and cultural revolutionary, Guy Debord
(1931-1994) was a founding member of the Lettrist International and
Situationist International groups. His films and books, including
Society of the Spectacle (1967), were major catalysts for
philosophical and political changes in the twentieth century, and
helped trigger the May 1968 rebellion in France.
McKenzie Wark (she/her), awarded the 2019 Thoma Prize for writing
in digital art, is the author of A Hacker Manifesto Gamer Theory,
andThe Beach Beneath the Street. Wark's correspondence with Kathy
Acker was published by Semiotext(e) as I'm Very Into You.
The pathos of these letters is that Situationism is falling apart
even as it is coming together, and that, in the complicated
machinations of his scattered group, Debord is able to perform as
many acts of friendship as he does of malice. To borrow the title
of the film he made in 1959 about his Lettrist friends, the letters
trace a 'passage of a few people through a rather brief moment in
time,' a tracing again triangulated by three comrades above all
Pinot, Jorn and Constant.
*London Review of Books*
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