{"product_id":"leaving-the-twentieth-century-isbn-9781804294864","title":"Leaving The Twentieth Century","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe acclaimed history of the groundbreaking Situationist movement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Situationist International, which leaped to the fore during the Paris tumult of 1968, has extended its revolutionary influence right up to the present day. In \u003ci\u003eLeaving the Twentieth Century\u003c\/i\u003e, the movement is captured for the first time in its full range and diversity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMcKenzie Wark traces the group’s development from the bohemian Paris of the ’50s to the explosive days of May ’68. She introduces the group as an ensemble, revealing the work and activities of thinkers previously obscured by the reputation of founding member Guy Debord. Roaming through Europe and exploring the vital lives its members—including Constant, Asger Jorn, Michèle Bernstein, Alexander Trocchi, and Jacqueline de Jong—Wark uncovers a group riven with conflicting passions. She follows the narrative beyond 1968, to the Situationists International’s disintegration and beyond: the ideas of T. J. Clark, the Fourierist utopia of Raoul Vaneigem, René Vienet’s earthy situationist cinema, Gianfranco Sanguinetti’s pranking of the Italian ruling class, Alice Becker-Ho’s account of the anonymous language of the Romany, and Debord’s late films and his surprising work as a game designer.\"Wark's readable explanation of the movement's ideas is the best I have read.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Edwin Heathcote, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A playful, smart and occasionally epigrammatic study of the Situationists ... this brilliant account is not only an essential work for our own times; it also comes with a cover that, with the minimum of manual dexterity, folds out into a  collaborative graphic essay\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—John Burnside, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"They could be treated as histories of the Situationist milieu and its aftermaths, but to do so would miss entirely what makes them such compelling and, at times, hilarious reading. [...] What really drives The Beach Beneath the Street and The Spectacle of Disintegration is their impatience with contemporary cultural and intellectual institutions that, for all of their posturing, are largely complicit with the prevailing political order\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eSydney Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Wark is a marvellous guide to the micro-society of the Situationists ... She brings to the task a necessary sympathy, an encyclopedic knowledge, and a certain stylistic irrepressibility\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Alex Danchev, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Wark is a fine aphorist ... Playful, angry, depressed, celebratory, this is a book for anyone not convinced that there is no alternative to the way we live now\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Christopher Bray, \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] smart overview of the situationist movement\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Hari Kunzru, \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman, Books of the Year\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Covering the SI’s adventures in philosophy, art, architecture, literature and cinema (and suggesting that we should do away with many of the distinctions between these categories), Wark traces a lineage we have apparently lost.. The author’s primary proposal is that although we live in serious times we should still have fun with time. We should treat history as a user’s manual. This history of the SI shifts with gay abandon between past, present and future tenses, and constantly rattles the boundaries\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eArt Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eMcKenzie Wark\u003c\/b\u003e is best known for a series of books of twenty-first century critical theory, including \u003ci\u003eA Hacker Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGamer Theory\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCapital is Dead\u003c\/i\u003e. She has also written works that contribute to an alternate history of Marxism, including \u003ci\u003eLeaving the Twentieth Century\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMolecular Red\u003c\/i\u003e. Her survey books on contemporary theory and problems in collaborative knowledge production are \u003ci\u003eGeneral Intellects\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSensoria\u003c\/i\u003e. She also writes in an autotheoretical style in books such as \u003ci\u003eDispositions\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePhilosophy for Spiders\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRaving \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eLove and Money, Sex and Death\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a professor of media and cultural studies at a university in New York.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304995639525,"sku":"NP9781804294864","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781804294864.jpg?v=1767731254","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/leaving-the-twentieth-century-isbn-9781804294864","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}