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Over fifty years after the Situationist International appeared, they continue to influence activists, artists and theorists. From the Invisible Committee's bestselling The Coming Insurrection to Iain Sinclair's psychogeographic explorations, their work is still found to be rich with possibilities, yet its breadth and diversity is still unexplored. In the first account since Greil Marcus's Lipstick Traces (1989), McKenzie Wark traces the Situationist International's beginnings in 1950s bohemian Paris up to the explosive days of May 1968. This account puts the legendary figure of Guy Debord back into the context of the other fascinating figures who made up the movement, including Constant, Asger Jorn, Michele Bernstein and Jacqueline De Jong. It treats them as an international movement of conflicting passions rather than as a Paris coterie. Accessible to those who have only just discovered the Situationists and filled with new insights, Wark reconnects their work to new practices in communication, built form, and everyday life.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Beach Beneath the Street
• Subtitle: The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International
• Author: McKenzie Wark
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9781781688380
• ISBN: 1781688389
• ID: 08851075
• Publisher: Verso Books
• Weight: 336 g
• Dimensions: 140 × 209 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 25. March 2015

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