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One data point: a personal fave of the Situationism "genre" is The Revolution of Everyday Life, by Raoul Vaneigem. If Society of the Spectacle is your thing, y

• beepbooptheory 2y ago
  MacKenzie Wark does a good job on one of her two books about the situationists to connect some dots but also draw some lines between Baudrillard and Debord. But even more interesting is the shadow of Lefebvre and his "Critique of Everyday Life" which predates much of this stuff by decades. Lefebvre himself is a somewhat forgotten figure in Marxism in general, got a somewhat bad rap for going against the party line at the time to focus on the "bourgeoisie science" of sociology. But he became a kind of elder for the situationists for a time. His "Critique" is much more aligned with a Kantian philosophical tradition, which makes it a little hard to digest if you're not already bought in to such things (let alone bought into Marxist critique...) but it is huge, vastly interesting book nonetheless.