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Panegyric

An audacious autobiography by the founding figure of the Situationist International.

Guy Debord’s silver-tongue-in-cheek autobiography mixes precision and pastiche in a whirlwind account of philosophy, exploit, and inebriation. From the stark professions of Volume I to the illustrated sequences of Volume 2, Panegyric confronts us with a figure who strategically, demonically tried to wrest life from the disabling modern 'spectacle.'

Paperback, 181 pages

ISBN: 9781844673537

June 2009

$12.95 / £6.99

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  • A brief and elegiac memoir of a life lived in its shadows and cracks.
  • As cryptic and self-effacing a self-portrait as can be found anywhere ... Panegyric is almost purely literary, in the sense that one need know or care nothing of the author to be captured by it: Debord is seeking to hijack his era into timelessness.
  • These concise but extremely rich and provocative memoirs are the product of … a philosopher whose scathing pen has never been so sharp.

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