Name: On the Poverty of Student Life: Considered in its Economic, Political, Psychological, Sexual, and Especially Intellectual Aspects, With a Modest Proposal for Doing Away With it
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Author: Guy Debord
ISBN: 9781942173571

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On the Poverty of Student Life: Considered in its Economic, Political, Psychological, Sexual, and Especially Intellectual Aspects, With a Modest Proposal for Doing Away With it

Type

Physical Book

Author

Guy Debord

Mustapha Khayati

The International Situationist

Publisher

Common Notions

Year

2022

Language

English

Pages

208

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.6 x 15.5 x 2.5 cm

Weight

0.50 kg.

ISBN13

9781942173571

Synopsis "On the Poverty of Student Life: Considered in its Economic, Political, Psychological, Sexual, and Especially Intellectual Aspects, With a Modest Proposal for Doing Away With it "

When the Situationist International was a little known revolutionary art group, before Guy Debord's philosophical masterpiece Society of the Spectacle was published, and before Paris' universities were occupied in May '68, a pamphlet succinctly titled On the Poverty of Student Life: Considered in Its Economic, Political, Psychological, Sexual, and Especially Intellectual Aspects, With a Modest Proposal for Doing Away With It created a scandal that would turn into a global revolt. On the Poverty of Student Life was a match that recognized and described student and youth alienation, and the way it was printed and distributed spread that fire. For the first edition supporters of the SI appropriated school funds to make and distribute 10,000 copies. From there, dozens of editions were printed by worker- and student-run printing presses around the world, from Tunis to East London, from Tokyo to Detroit. This new edition highlights this global underground circulation and brings attention to the common conditions of students, workers, and anti-imperialist resistance in the world of the sixties--bringing that historic reckoning to the present. Featuring a new translation by former SI member and celebrated translator Donald Nicholson-Smith, an interview with author Mustapha Khayati where he traces his map from colonial Algeria to imperial France to the university and the streets, and essays about the political relevance of the manifesto (then and now)--an edition like this has never before existed. With beautiful photographs of 79 different editions this book provides a cartography of an uprising.

Guy Debord

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Guy Debord (1931–1994) was a French philosopher, filmmaker, and political theorist, a central figure of the Situationist International. His most influential work is The Society of the Spectacle (La société du spectacle, 1967), an essay that criticizes the transformation of social relations into representations mediated by images, where authentic life is replaced by its representation. In 1988, he published Comments on the Society of the Spectacle, delving deeper into his earlier ideas and analyzing the evolution of the spectacle in contemporary society.

Debord also ventured into cinema, adapting his main work into a homonymous film in 1973. His thought has influenced various disciplines, from critical theory to contemporary art.

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