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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)

Critique of Everyday Life (French, Critique de la vie quotidienne II, Fondements d'une sociologie de la quotidienneté, 1947) is a book by French philosopher Henri Lefebvre.

The book is a criticism of everyday life and consumerism,and it was among the major intellectual motives behind the founding of COBRA and, eventually, of the Situationist International. He later commented that

"The book is an "allusive" one - allusive to culture, "leisure" and urban reality... Its ambiguity enabled conflicting interpretations to be made, both extremist ones (the revolution in and through everyday life, everything all at once) and reformist ones (improve the status of the everyday, the "quality of life")."


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