Born in Manchester, England, Donald Nicholson-Smith is a longtime resident of New York City. A sometime Situationist (1965-67), he has translated Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle (Zone) and Henri Lefebvre’s The Production of Space (Blackwell), as well as works by Guillaume Apollinaire, Antonin Artaud, Jean-Patrick Manchette, Thierry Jonquet, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, etc. His film work includes the English-language version of René Viénet’s anti-Maoist classic Peking Duck Soup (1977).
A Letter to My Children and the Children of the World to Come
SKU: 9781629635125
Author: Raoul Vaneigem • Afterword: John Holloway • Translator: Donald Nicholson-Smith
Publisher: PM Press
ISBN: 9781629635125
Published: 12/2018
Format: Paperback, mobi, ePub, PDF
Size: 8 x 5
Page count: 128
Subjects: Philosophy/Politics
Praise
“In this fine book, the Situationist author, whose writings fueled
the fires of May 1968, sets out to pass down the foundational ideals of
his struggle against the seemingly all-powerful fetishism of the
commodity and in favor of the force of human desire and the sovereignty
of life.”
—Jean Birnbaum, Le Monde
“A startling and invigorating restatement for the present ghastly era of humanity’s choice: socialism or barbarism.”
—Dave Barbu, Le Nouveau Père Duchesne
Guy Debord
SKU: 9781629634494
Author: Anselm Jappe • Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith • Foreword by T.J. Clark
Publisher: PM Press
ISBN: 9781629634494
Published: 3/2018
Format: Paperback, mobi, ePub, PDF
Size: 6 x 9
Page count: 224
Subjects: Biography / Politics
Praise
“A clear-headed account . . . far and away the best we have so far.”
—Times Literary Supplement
“The only book on Debord in either French or English that can be
unreservedly recommended . . . particularly useful for its extensive
treatment of the Marxian connection that is usually ignored in
culture-oriented accounts of the Situationists.”
—Ken Knabb, editor of Situationist International Anthology
“Jappe successfully gets to grips with the content of Debord’s and
the SI’s activity in a way that is accessible and doesn’t require a vast
amount of prior knowledge or an extensive vocabulary of obscure jargon
in order to understand it. Debord has got a somewhat undeserved
reputation for having an impenetrable and complex writing style—a myth
which Jappe goes a long way towards refuting by examining the major
concepts in Society of the Spectacle and other works, and putting them in the context of a wider historical basis and in terms of the SI as a whole.”
—Do or Die
“Political writing is always instrumental as well as utopian.
Debord’s is no exception. Only sometimes writing has to reconcile itself
to the idea that its time of instrumentality—its time as a weapon—lies a
little in the future. Jappe’s book is true to its subject, above all,
because it reads Debord, and helps us read him, with that future in
mind.”
—T.J. Clark, from the Foreword
The Revolution of Everyday Life
SKU: 9781604866780
Author: Raoul Vaneigem • Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith
Publisher: PM Press
ISBN: 9781604866780
Published: 10/2012
Format: Paperback, mobi, ePub, PDF
Size: 6 x 9
Subjects: Politics, Philosophy
About
Originally published just months before the May 1968 upheavals in France, Raoul Vaneigem’s The Revolution of Everyday Life
offered a lyrical and aphoristic critique of the “society of the
spectacle” from the point of view of individual experience. Whereas
Debord’s masterful analysis of the new historical conditions that
triggered the uprisings of the 1960s armed the revolutionaries of the
time with theory, Vaneigem’s book described their feelings of
desperation directly, and armed them with “formulations capable of
firing point-blank on our enemies.”
“I realise,” writes
Vaneigem in his introduction, “that I have given subjective will an easy
time in this book, but let no one reproach me for this without first
considering the extent to which the objective conditions of the
contemporary world advance the cause of subjectivity day after day.”
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