Posted on: September 17, 2014 Posted by: James Comments: 0

CLASS WARGAMES PRESENTS GUY DEBORD’S THE GAME OF WAR

Unpopular Books has published the extended version of Richard Barbrook and Fabian Tompsett’s script for Ilze Black’s film – Class Wargames Presents Guy Debord’s The Game of War – along with the group’s communiqués and a specially written preface by Fabian Tompsett. Click here for a free download of the Class Wargames pamphlet. You can purchase the hard copy of the pamphlet in person or on-line from: Housmans Bookshop 5 Caledonian Road King’s…

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Posted on: September 17, 2014 Posted by: James Comments: 0

CLASS WARGAMES: LUDIC SUBVERSION AGAINST SPECTACULAR CAPITALISM

Why should radicals be interested in playing wargames? Surely the Left can have no interest in such militarist fantasies? Yet, Guy Debord – the leader of the Situationist International – placed such importance on his invention of The Game of War that he described it as the most significant of his accomplishments. Intrigued by this claim, a multinational group of artists, activists and academics formed Class Wargames to investigate the…

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