The Revolution of Everyday Life/Society of the Spectacle

[warandwar]

Has anyone read these? Revolution of Everyday Life blew me away this summer.

[PSOL]

Does Guy Debord and the Situationists really blame technological change for the crux of their argument and not capitalism itself, because reading their magnum opus and criticism from a ICP standpoint, I think there was a lot of background that I either missed or was written elsewhere. If the SI heads could not make a point from breads and circuses to the television and blame it on the state of current society than one on  just new technology, the latter’s scathing criticism wins out. Else I think the ICP critiquer is pulling from some other work or what they heard.

They had, without a doubt, interesting ideas and could better reflect such ideas than anarchist circles like Socialism or Barbarism (SoB) who developed nothing. Still, compared to how widespread their work caught on in certain academic circles, their theoretical and activist work folded quickly and badly. The SI is no more and anarchism isn’t very big in France or Western Europe anymore, but ideas from people like Krivine  (NPA) or Lambert (which led to Meluche) are still relevant.