tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161060.post6580089247148207910..comments2023-11-05T04:31:48.615-05:00Comments on Elusive Lucidity: MarginsZChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10211734319629732065noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161060.post-10014396287141884362008-01-24T18:35:00.000-05:002008-01-24T18:35:00.000-05:00Zach --I don't really know how the Merrifield comp...Zach --<BR/><BR/>I don't really know how the Merrifield compares in argumentation/perspective, but it definitely fills a nitch by being very brief and easy to read, yet also substantive and not over-simplified. I turned to it after having read Society of the Spectacle and it delivered in terms of biographical context and in giving a potted history of the Situationists' development.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161060.post-5094432170428230812008-01-23T00:12:00.000-05:002008-01-23T00:12:00.000-05:00Patrick, it's Lefebvre's Everday Life in the Moder...Patrick, it's Lefebvre's <I>Everday Life in the Modern World</I>, trans. Sacha Rabinovitch, original edition copyright 1971 but new material in a 1984 ed. (The copy I've got checked out is a third printing, 1994.) New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers.<BR/><BR/>And I am certainly due for a revisitation of <I>North by Northwest</I>. (In fact sometime in 2008 I should revisit a lot of Hitchcocks, plus play catch up on some minor ones, since I just got Tom Cohen's mad-and-fascinating-looking two-volume book on Hitch.)ZChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10211734319629732065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161060.post-40081560102697773482008-01-22T14:14:00.000-05:002008-01-22T14:14:00.000-05:00Zach--do you have the citation for that second quo...Zach--<BR/>do you have the citation for that second quote?<BR/><BR/>I think the moment tying this all together (post-war curtain wall architecture with cinema) is the opening credits of North by Northwest.<BR/><BR/>PatrickPWChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17030350846466104470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161060.post-59002393167848729902008-01-21T12:52:00.000-05:002008-01-21T12:52:00.000-05:00Ah thanks again Phil--do you know how it stacks up...Ah thanks again Phil--do you know how it stacks up next to the books by Bracken (read some of) and Jappe (on the pile)?ZChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10211734319629732065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161060.post-81885705839679375202008-01-21T12:32:00.000-05:002008-01-21T12:32:00.000-05:00Another book recommendation: Andy Merrifield's boo...Another book recommendation: Andy Merrifield's book "Guy Debord" (2005, Reaktion Books, Critical Lives series) is a great little intellectual bio and introductory history of the Situationists and their influences. It's very lively written too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com