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OverviewWinner of the 2020 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award Guy Debord, the Situationist International, and the Revolutionary Spirit presents a history of the two avant-garde groups that French filmmaker and subversive strategist Guy Debord founded and led: the Lettrist International (1952-1957) and the Situationist International (1957-1972). Debord is popularly known for his classic book The Society of the Spectacle (1967), but his masterwork is the Situationist International (SI), which he fashioned into an international revolutionary avant-garde group that orchestrated student protests at the University of Strasbourg in 1966, contributed to student unrest at the University of Nanterre in 1967-1968, and played an important role in the occupations movement that brought French society to a standstill in May of 1968. The book begins with a brief history of the Lettrist International that explores the group's conceptualization and practice of the critical anti-art practice of detournement, as well as the subversive spatial practices of the derive, psychogeography, and unitary urbanism. These practices, which became central to the Situationist International, anticipated many contemporary cultural practices, including culture jamming, critical media literacy, and critical public pedagogy. This book follows up the edited book Detournement as Pedagogical Praxis (Sense Publishers, 2014), and together they offer readers, particularly those in the field of Education, an introduction to the history, concepts, and critical practices of a group whose revolutionary spirit permeates contemporary culture, as can be seen in the political actions of Pussy Riot in Russia, the yellow vest protesters in France, the #BlackLivesMatter movement, and the striking teachers and student protesters on campuses throughout the U.S. See inside the book. Full Product DetailsAuthor: James TrierPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 10 Weight: 0.855kg ISBN: 9789004401990ISBN 10: 9004401997 Pages: 454 Publication Date: 11 July 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationJames Trier, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has published articles and book chapters about representations of education in popular culture, and his first book is an edited volume titled Detournement as Pedagogical Praxis (Sense Publishers, 2014), winner of the 2015 American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Book Award. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |