Dear ListServ Administrator: Please post this to Screen-L. Also, please let me know if you'd like to review the book for your listserv. Thanks! Best wishes, Stacy Lienemann Direct Response and Scholarly Promotions Manager University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 612-627-1934 http://www.upress.umn.edu The definitive biography of the author of The Society of the Spectacle and a compelling account of his war against inauthenticity. GUY DEBORD: Revolution in the Service of Poetry Vincent Kaufmann Translated by Robert Bononno University of Minnesota Press | 384 pages | 2006 ISBN 0-8166-4455-1 | hardcover | $29.95 Writer, artist, filmmaker, revolutionary, and impresario of the Situationist International, Guy Debord shunned the apparatus of publicity he dissected brilliantly in his most influential work, The Society of the Spectacle. In this ambitious and innovative biography, Vincent Kaufmann places Debord's hostility toward the inquisitive gaze at the center of an investigation into his subject's diverse output‹from his earliest films to his landmark works of social and political provocation. ³Many people felt Debord could not be classified. Yet, this is what drew me to him most, the fact that he was unclassifiable, difficult to approach, dismissive of those who tried to describe him, and always willing to challenge them. I admire his art of defiance, his belligerent and melancholy poetics. He forces you to keep your distance, he deprives you of the convenience and hypocrisy found in what Baudelaire referred to, in the beautiful language of his century, as fraternal prostitution. I am neither Debord's equal nor his brother, but these may be qualities no reader can claim to have.² ‹from the Introduction For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book¹s webpage: http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/K/kaufmann_guy.html Sign up to receive news on the latest releases from University of Minnesota Press: http://www.upress.umn.edu/eform.html ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]