Raoul Vaneigem ; translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith.
2nd rev. ed.
[Seattle, Wash.] :
Left Bank Books,
1994.
279 pages ;
21 cm
Translation of: Traité de savoir-vivre à l'usage des jeunes générations.
Power's perspective. The insignificant signified -- The impossibility of participation : power as sum of constraints. Humiliation ; Isolation ; Suffering ; The decline and fall of work ; Decompression and the third force -- The impossibility of communication : power as universal mediation. The age of happiness ; Exchange and gift ; Technology and its mediated use ; Down Quantity Street ; Mediated abstraction, abstracted mediation -- The impossibility of realisation : power as sum of seductions. Sacrifice ; Separation ; The organisation of appearances ; roles ; The fascination of time -- Survival and false opposition to it. Survival sickness ; Spurious opposition -- Reversal of perspective. Creativity, spontaneity and poetry ; Masters without slaves ; The space-time of lived experience and the rectification of the past ; The unitary triad : self-realisation, communication, participation ; The interworld and the new innocence ; You won't fuck with us much longer!
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"This book was the starting point of the subversive current which first appeared in May '68 and is now re-emerging in the anti-capitalist movements of today. It outlines the theory, which lays bare the reasons for our own alienation from modern life."--p. [4] of cover.
Revolution of everyday life.
Traité de savoir-vivre à l'usage des jeunes générations.