{"product_id":"with-and-against-dominique-routhier-9781804292556","title":"With and Against","description":"No other art movement has so profoundly influenced radical politics as the Situationist International. But beyond the clichés about its purported leader Guy Debord, the \"society of the spectacle,\" \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;détournement\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt; and \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;dérive\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt;, lies a more complex story about key historical shifts in the composition of capital, work, labor, art, and revolutionary theory during the 1950s and 60s.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;i\u0026gt;With and Against\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt; reframes the history of the Situationist International as a struggle to come to terms with the then-emerging ideologies of cybernetics and automation. Through each of the book's four chapters, Dominique Routhier dissects Situationist pamphlets, documents, artworks, and objects that refract elements of a \"cybernetic hypothesis\": the theoretically hyperbolic belief that technological progress, computers and automation make class struggle and the idea of revolution obsolete. \u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;With equal attention to aesthetic detail and to the broader contours of political economy, this book serves as a critical intervention in art history as well a call to reconsider, more broadly, the contemporary lessons of the most political of all artistic avantgardes.","brand":"Verso Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50996087816480,"sku":"9781804292556","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9781804292556.jpg?v=1781206381","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/with-and-against-dominique-routhier-9781804292556","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}