{"product_id":"on-the-poverty-of-student-life-considered-in-its-economic-political-psychological-sexual-and-especially-intellectual-aspects-with-a-modest-propo-paperback","title":"On the Poverty of Student Life: Considered in Its Economic, Political, Psychological, Sexual, and Especially Intellectual Aspects, with a Modest Propo - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eThe International Situationist\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMustapha Khayati\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eGuy Debord\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhen the Situationist International was a little known revolutionary art group\u003c\/strong\u003e, before Guy Debord's philosophical masterpiece \u003cem\u003eSociety of the Spectacle\u003c\/em\u003e was published, and before Paris' universities were occupied in May '68, a pamphlet succinctly titled \u003cem\u003eOn the Poverty of Student Life: Considered in Its Economic, Political, Psychological, Sexual, and Especially Intellectual Aspects, With a Modest Proposal for Doing Away With It \u003c\/em\u003ecreated a scandal that would turn into a global revolt. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn the Poverty of Student Life\u003c\/em\u003e was a match that recognized and described student and youth alienation, and the way it was printed and distributed spread that fire. For the first edition supporters of the SI appropriated school funds to make and distribute 10,000 copies. From there, dozens of editions were printed by worker- and student-run printing presses around the world, from Tunis to East London, from Tokyo to Detroit. This new edition highlights this global underground circulation and brings attention to the common conditions of students, workers, and anti-imperialist resistance in the world of the sixties--bringing that historic reckoning to the present.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFeaturing a new translation by former SI member and celebrated translator Donald Nicholson-Smith, an interview with author Mustapha Khayati where he traces his map from colonial Algeria to imperial France to the university and the streets, and essays about the political relevance of the manifesto (then and now)--an edition like this has never before existed. With beautiful photographs of 79 different editions this book provides a cartography of an uprising.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMustapha Khayati\u003c\/strong\u003e was a member of the Situationist International in the 1960s.Though collaborating with other Situationists, he was the chief author of \u003cem\u003eOn the Poverty of Student LIfe.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGuy Debord\u003c\/strong\u003e was a French Marxists theorist, philosopher, filmmaker, member of the Letterist International, and founding member of the Situationist International. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Society of the Spectacle\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Situationist International\u003c\/strong\u003e was an international organization of social revolutionaries made up of avant-garde artists, intellectuals, and political theorists. It was prominent in Europe from its formation in 1957 to its dissolution in 1972.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDonald Nicholson-Smith\u003c\/strong\u003e was a member of the SI and has translated a number of their texts (and much more) into English.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnna O'Meara\u003c\/strong\u003e's research investigates Middle Eastern art and activism between the late 1960's and early 1970's, particularly the work of Mustapha Khayati. Her translations have been published by Verso, Three Rooms Press, Annex Press, and BauerVerlag.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMehdi El Hajoui\u003c\/strong\u003e, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University, has been researching and collecting the\u003cem\u003e Situationist International \u003c\/em\u003efor over a decade. Items from his archive have been exhibited at Princeton University, Indiana University, the Chicago Architecture Biennial, the \u003cem\u003eMusée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain \u003c\/em\u003eof Geneva, and the \u003cem\u003eHaus der Kulturen der Welt \u003c\/em\u003ein Berlin, among others. 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