King Mob Echo
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King Mob Echo (1968 - ,six issues) was the magazine of radical collective King Mob.
King Mob Echo 1 (April 1968)
- "Elsewhere in King Mob Echo 1 there is a translation from the SI's pamphlet on ... articles about spontaneous violence, an image of Rosa Luxemburg's corpse," --The Situationist International in Britain Modernism, Surrealism, and the Avant-Garde (2016) by Sam Cooper
- "King Mob Echo 1 (1968): 1. Raoul Vaneigem, 'Desolation Row', King Mob Echo 1 (April 1968), in Vague (ed), King Mob Echo: English Section of the Situationist International, 81. Bob Dylan, 'Desolation Row', on Highway" --The Situationist International in Britain Modernism, Surrealism, and the Avant-Garde (2016) by Sam Cooper
This first issue features a film still from Louis Feuillade’s film Fantômas on its cover, a menacing masked man above the "I am nothing but I must be everything" Karl Marx quotation (from Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right ).
Its contents include:
- “The Return of the Repressed” by Norman O. Brown
- “Desolation Row”, the title of a freely translated excerpt from Raoul Vaneigem’s Traité de savoir-vivre à l'usage des jeunes générations (1967)
- “Urban Gorilla Comes East”, the magazine’s only original King Mob statement, co-written by Phil Cohen (also known for his involvement with the London Street Commune and the 144 Piccadilly squat) and Donald Nicholson Smith
- A photo of Rosa Luxemburg's corpse
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