Edward John Matthews

Guy Debord's Politics of Communication (eBook, ePUB)

Liberating Language from Power

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on published works as well as personal correspondences written between 1948-1994, this book conceptualizes Guy Debord's politics of communication and how it sought to undermine the hierarchical, monological language of the spectacle. Matthews traces Debord's search for critical communication strategies that could subvert the reified "language of manufacturing" from the philosopher's early activities in anti-aesthetic 'terrorism' (e.g., the neo-poem, metagraphics, and détournement) to advocating forms of horizontal communication between autonomous revolutionary groups or individuals using 'native' language. Matthews ultimately finds that to critique the language of the spectacle, Debord relied on the power of the negative to speak the ironic language of contradiction, of critical theory, and of the incommunicable.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781666931655
• Artikelnr.: 68619898

Autorenporträt

Edward John Matthews teaches at Fanshawe College.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One
Debord's Poetic Prehistory (1949
1952) Chapter Two
Debord and the Letterist International (1952
1957) Chapter Three
Debord and the Situationist International (1957
1972) Chapter Four
Debord's Early Post
SI Period (1972
1979) Chapter Five
Debord's Final Years/Final Thoughts (1979
1994)