Leaving the 20th Century
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Leaving the 20th Century: The Incomplete Work of the Situationist International (1974) is an anthology English translations of French Situationist texts edited by British activist Christopher Gray.
The original edition was designed by Jamie Reid.
Book Description
- First published in 1974, 'Leaving..' was the first collection of Situationist writing in English. Chris Gray, its editor, was himself a member of the SI. Long out of print, it has gained an enormous reputation. This new, lavish, oversize edition, keeps the original provocative, and free and easy translations, along with the cut and paste graphics, poster-art and cartoons. It stands as a remarkable, and eminently accessible, introduction to a remarkable (and oft-times superficially at least, inaccessible) revolutionary project. Now as we stand at the gates of the 21st century, it is time for a new generation of readers to take up this remarkable book.
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Table of contents
- 'Everyone will live in his own cathedral': the Situationists 1958-1964
- The Sound and The Fury
- The Struggle for Control of the New Techniques of Conditioning
- The Construction of Situations: An Introduction
- Formula For a New City
- Traffic
- Instructions for Taking Up Arms
- Unitary Urbanism
- The Transformation of Everyday Life
- The Bad Old Days Will End
- The Totality for Kids
- Theses on the Commune
- All the King's Men
- Isolation
- 'Shake in your shoes bureaucrats': the Situationists 1965-1969
- Watts 1965: The Decline and Fall of the 'Spectacular' Commodity Economy
- The Décor and Spectators of Suicide
- The Situationists and the New Forms of Struggle Against Politics and Art
- Minimum Definition of a Revolutionary Organization
- The Proletariat as Subject and as Representation
- Nihilism
- Self-Realization, Communication and Participation
- Address to All Workers
- Some Thoughts on Self-Management
- 'Those who make half a revolution only dig their own graves': the Situationists since 1969
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