The revolution of everyday life by Vaneigem, Raoul, 1934-, Nicholson-Smith, Donald instant download

The revolution of everyday life by Vaneigem, Raoul, 1934-, Nicholson-Smith, Donald instant download

1 online resource (xii, 266 pages), One of the most important exponents of Situationist ideas presents an impassioned critique of modern capitalism in this cornerstone of modern radical thought. Originally published in early 1968, it both kindled and colored the May 1968 upheavals in France, which captured the attention of the world. Naming and defining the alienating features of everyday life in consumer societysurvival rather than living in full, the call to sacrifice, the cultivation of false needs, the dictatorship of the commodity, subjection to social roles, and the replacement of God by the economythe book argues that the countervailing impulses that exist within deep alienationcreativity, spontaneity, poetrypresent an authentic alternative to nilhilistic consumerism. This carefully edited new translation marks the first North American publication of this important work and includes a new preface by the author, Includes index, Print version record, The Revolution of Everyday Life -- Introduction -- pt. ONE Power's Perspective -- I. The Insignificant Signified -- The Impossibility of Participation: Power as Sum of Constraints -- II. Humiliation -- III. Isolation -- IV. Suffering -- V. The Decline of Work -- VI. Decompression and the Third Force -- The Impossibility of Communication: Power as Universal Mediation -- VII. The Age of Happiness -- VIII. Exchange and Gift -- IX. Technology and Its Mediated Use -- X. The Reign of Quantity -- XI. Mediated Abstraction and Abstracted Mediation -- The Impossibility of Fulfilment: Power as Sum of Seductions -- XII. Sacrifice -- XIII. Separation -- XIV. The Organization of Appearances -- XV. Roles -- XVI. The Fascination of Time -- Survival and Its Pseudo-Negation -- XVII. Survival Sickness -- XVIII. Unbuttressed Refusal -- pt. TWO Reversal of Perspective -- XIX. Reversal of Perspective -- XX. Creativity, Spontaneity and Poetry -- XXI. Masters Without Slaves -- XXII. The Space-Time of Lived Experience and the…