Raoul Vaneigem, aka Jules-Francois Dupuis, first published this text as Histoire desinvolte du surrealisme in 1977. Vaneigem was a leader and writer in the Situationist International. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

From the slipcase: Guy Deborg is best known as the prime mover of the Situationist International ( 1957-1972), as a filmmaker, and as the author of 'The Society of the Spectacle'(1967). Alice Becker-Ho (Alice Debord) and Debord's 'A Game of War' originally appeared in 1987. This is the first edtion in English, and the first to be accompanied by a game-board and counters allowing readers to play 'at home' according to the rules given." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book is considered "the first serious intellectual biography of Guy Debord, prime mover of the Situationist International (1957-1972) and the author of 'The Society of the Spectacle,' perhaps the seminal book of May 1968 in France...Jappe's book offers a lively account of the theory and practice of this 'last avant garde' on its way from radical bohemianism to revolutionary theory. It also deals with Debord's post-Situationist work and with his films, which are at present largely inaccessible" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This text of political and cultural theory spectacle was first published in Paris in 1967. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.