Posted on: January 18, 2011 Posted by: Richard Barbrook Comments: 0

Class Wargames at the ICIA: Exhibition & Events in Bath

Class Wargames presents Guy Debord’s The Game of War Wednesday 19th January – Saturday 26th February, Monday-Saturday 10am-5pm ICIA Art Space 2 Guy Debord is celebrated as chief strategist of the revolutionary group Situationist International. His book, The Society of the Spectacle is a searing critique of the media-saturated society of consumer capitalism. After the May 1968 Revolution, Debord and his partner, Alice Becker-Ho, quit Paris and went to live…

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Posted on: November 8, 2010 Posted by: StefaN Comments: 0

Class Wargames goes East

The Battle of Lviv Futurological Congress in Lviv/Ukraine Programming Of The Future 26-28 November 2010 ‘The official collective genius of France brought to naught by the artful stupidity of a single individual; the collective will of the nation, as often as it speaks through universal suffrage, seeking its appropriate expression through the inveterate enemies of the interests of the masses, until at length it finds it in the self-will of…

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Posted on: October 27, 2008 Posted by: Richard Barbrook Comments: 0

NOT JUST A GAME OF TOY SOLDIERS

1918 Battle of Kazan Scenario for Chris Peers’ Reds versus Reds This is not an attempt at realism: there is no attempt to deceive the eye, as in a model railway or museum diorama. This is a conscious design, representing in symbols (which in this case are paradoxically almost-realistic models) elements of historical reality, perceptions of Russia and, as the game progresses, the passing of time. How to transform a…

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Posted on: October 23, 2007 Posted by: Richard Barbrook Comments: 0

Communiqué #1

CLASS WARGAMES PRESENTS GUY DEBORD’S THE GAME OF WAR Tuesday 23rd October 2007 at 6.00pm Class Wargames will play Guy Debord’s The Game of War using a replica of his original 1977 design for the board game. “Politics is a continuation of war by other means.” The Game of War is a Clausewitz simulator: a Napoleonic-era military strategy game where armies must maintain their communications structure to survive – and…

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