An amazing book indeed. Vaneigem's influence inside the group was perhaps even stronger than Debord's. It's also impossible to fully understand D's work without

An amazing book indeed. Vaneigem's influence inside the group was perhaps even stronger than Debord's. It's also impossible to fully understand D's work without understanding V's, and vice-versa. V not being mentioned even once only shows this piece of content is very low quality. Dérive was most def not the "key tactic of the Situationists" and it made me laugh - this author doesn't even seem to have read the main works from this group, honestly. These books are very hard to translate.. Comparing the first few paragraphs from your link to the original in french, I can already see a lot of potential for misreading, even though I'm not a native english speaker so I could be wrong. For instance, the last word in the third paragraph is "profit" when it seems to me correct term would be "benefit": particularly in the context of vaneigem's ideas on superseding the trade economy. On the first paragraph "I have no intention of revealing what there is of my life" is not the same as "Ce qu’il y a de vécu dans ce livre" - Vaneigem would never reify life like that - particularly when that happens to be the exact theme of the book. Also he's not speaking about "my life", which is an 'individualist-owner' perspective on it. I've had a similar problem when I tried to read some Charles Fourier stuff in english: it just didn't correlate to the original, and left out A LOT OF MEANING. I've always wondered if only-english readers were really capable of accessing the meaning of text like these - very distant languages, more so when it comes to social and philosophic thought.