A Sick Planet : Guy Debord

Contents: A note (Alice Debord). 1. The decline and fall of the \'spectacular\' commodity-economy. 2. The explosion point of ideology in China. 3. A sick planet.

"More than 12 years after his suicide in 1994, the accuracy and pertinence of his writings on those troubled times is ever more apparent. And particularly so in the three essays gathered together in this volume.

\'\'The Rise and Fall of the "Spectacular" commodity-economy\', an analysis of the Watts riots in Los Angeles in the summer of 1965, when much of the city\'s black population fought thousands of police and national guard for several days, was published as a pamphlet by the situationist international in 1965. So, two years later, was \'The explosion point of ideology in China\', which examined and celebrated the decomposition of bureaucratic power and its ideology in China. A Sick Planet\', written in 1971, is an extremely prescient polemic on global environmental degradation and was originally intended to appear in the thirteenth issue of the Internationale Situationniste which was never published." (jacket)