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The Most Radical Gesture: The Situationist International in a Postmodern Age by Sadie Plant (Paperback, 1992)
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Most Radical Gesture : The Situationist International in a Postmodern Age, Paperback by Plant, Sadie, ISBN 0415062225, ISBN-13 9780415062220, Brand New, Free P&P in the UK This book is the first major study of the Situationist International. Tracing the history, ideas and influences of this radical and inspiring movement from dada to postmodernism, it argues that situationist ideas of art, revolution, everyday life and the spectacle continue to inform a variety of the most urgent poltical events, cultural movements, and theoretical debates of our times.
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The Most Radical Gesture is the first major study of the Situationist International, a revolutionary movement of extraordinary ambition and influence whose reflections on art, everyday life, pleasure, spontaneity, the city, and the spectacle have ensured it a vital, but largely hidden, role in the development of twentieth century culture and politics. Revealing the extent to which situationist ideas and tactics have influenced subsequent political theory and cultural agitation, this book discusses a variety of specific movements and moments of contestation, including Dada, surrealism, the events of May 1968, the Italian Autonomists, the Angry Brigade, and punk, placing the situationists in a line of impassioned anti-authoritarian dissent which also informs the work of writers like Lyotard and Deleuze and underwrites contemporary debates on postmodernism. It suggests that Baudrillard's reflections on hyperreality are impoverished reworkings of the situationists' critical analysis of capitalist society as a spectacle, and challenges postmodern denials of meaning, reality, and history by showing that postmodernism itself depends on a tradition which completely undermines the purposeless pessimism it promotes. In addition to its unprecedented treatmemt of situationist theory, The Most Radical Gesture is therefore also the first book to situate postmodern ideas in this vital historical, cultural, and political context. The product of a long-standing engagement with situationist ideas, it uses theoretical reflection, polemical speculation, and accounts of particular moments of cultural and political excitement to tell a fascinating and accessible tale.Product Identifiers
PublisherTaylor & Francis LTD
ISBN-139780415062220
eBay Product ID (ePID)88995784
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Book TitleThe Most Radical Gesture: the Situationist International in a Postmodern Age
AuthorSadie Plant
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1992
GenreArt & Culture
Number of Pages240 Pages
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Item Height216mm
Item Width138mm
Item Weight318g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorSadie Plant
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 13 Dec, 2018
Great book loved it.
It is the only comprehensive study of the Situationists that I've been able to find thus far. It's written in the context of wider theories of the postmodern era too thus giving the Situationists a place in a more contemporary context as the title says and for me it is as relevant now as a form of rebelliousness as it ever was. Interesting book for an old punk like me!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
