The End of Work (is the Beginning of Life) [1974]

New Space. The End of Work (is the Beginning of Life). Chicago, IL: n.p. [Solidarity Press], n.d. [July 1974]. 1 p.; 36.5 x 24 cm.; blue text/illustrations on green stock.

Rubber-stamped in red ink: “New Space, 1509 N. Halsted, 11, Chicago Ill. 60622. New Space is Solidarity’s ‘successor’, and is the distributor of these posters. This is a poster in comic form with calls for ‘the end of work’ and for controlling your own life. Put out (mostly) by anarchists, it could just have well been done by Situationists”

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Rapporto Sulla Costruzione Delle Situazioni [1958]

Debord, Guy. Rapporto Sulla Costruzione Della Situazioni. n.p. [Torino, Italy]: n.p. [Internationale Situationniste], n.d. [05/1958]. 19p.; 22.9 x 16.8 cm.; off-white/beige wrappers with text in black

First Italian edition of “Rapport sur la Construction des Situations”, which was originally printed in Belgium by Marcel Marien in 1,000 copies. This text was used the chief preparatory element of the founding conference of the ‘Internationale Situationniste’ in July 1957 in Cosio d’Arroscia. It delineates the views of the founders of the IS (Michèle Bernstein, Guy-Ernest Debord, Giuseppe Pinot-gallizio, Asger Jorn, Walter Olmo, Piero Simondo, Elena Verrone and Ralph Rumney).

Translation by Sergio Corino and Augusta Rivabella (Pinot-Gallizio’s wife), with a short preface by Pinot-Gallizio. As a careful reader noted, “The Danish dedication…should read: “To Torben Brostrøm from Debord and Nash”. Torben Brostrøm (born 1927) is a very well-known Danish literary critic. Obviously, the pamphlet was a gift from Jørgen Nash (and, in absentia, Debord) to Brostrøm.”

While the original French edition is rare, with only a few copies on OCLC, the Italian translation is virtually unheard of: no copies in the trade or on OCLC, though the Museum of Contemporary Arts of Barcelona (MACBA) owns a copy.

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Interlude: Memoires translation

Another interlude: the first complete English translation of Guy Debord & Asger Jorn’s collaborative book “Memoires”. Below is the entry in my friend Ian’s blog. It was my privilege to contribute to this work. Click here for the PDF file: memoires-debord-jorn (1)

The document has been put together as a facsimile of the original – with  Debord’s detourned text juxtaposed in spatial relationship with Jorn’s “supporting structures”.

Every word of the text is appropriated – in a few cases from Debord’s own works (including “Report on the Construction of Situations” and the script of “Howls in Favour of Sade”). Other identifiable sources are the plays of Shakespeare, the oratory of Boussett, Baudelaire’s prose poetry, Stevenson’s “Treasure Island”(!), along with snippets from Apollinaire, Racine, Edgar Allen Poe, François Sagan and de Gaulle amongst many, many others.