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SUMMARY:Ken Knabb
DESCRIPTION:City Lights and PM Press present Ken Knabb discussing his new
  book The Joy of Revolution and Related Texts Published by PM Press Best
  known for his translations of works by Guy Debord and the Situationist 
 International\, Ken Knabb is himself the author of many incisive radical
  texts. The Joy of Revolution is widely considered his masterpiece. Whil
 e there have been countless histories of past revolutions and countless 
 examinations of the many flaws of the present society and the many metho
 ds proposed for reforming them\, it would be difficult to name a single 
 book that more clearly and concisely explores the problems and possibili
 ties of a modern\, situationist-type revolution. Following a brief overv
 iew of the absurdities of the present social system and the failures of 
 past efforts to change it\, The Joy of Revolution examines the pros and 
 cons of a wide range of radical tactics\, first in the context of “norma
 l” or “ordinary” conditions\, then in the very different context of radi
 cal situations—those rare breakthroughs where masses of people start to 
 call everything into question and real change becomes possible. The book
  then concludes with some speculations on how a postrevolutionary global
  network of culturally diverse liberated communities might work\, and wh
 ere we might go from there. For this new edition\, Ken has added some no
 tes and updates to his original work and appended a number of his more r
 ecent texts—detourned comics\; book reviews\; a refutation of anarcho-pr
 imitivism\; reports on two remarkable radical movements in France\; a se
 ries of texts and talks on the Occupy movement (in which Ken was an enth
 usiastic participant)\; observations on the coronavirus shutdown\; and a
 nalyses of the increasingly vicious and delirious Trump regime and the n
 ew forms of popular resistance it has inspired. “Ken Knabb has so thorou
 ghly assimilated French language and culture that I sometimes have the i
 mpression that I’m talking with a compatriot. He does\, however\, retain
  that eminently North American quality of speaking clearly and directly\
 , without showing off his intelligence or drawing attention to himself. 
 Does this mean that his work is a sort of ‘Situationist International fo
 r Dummies’? No\, although it could undeniably serve as such. Anyone who 
 is unfamiliar with the Situationists\, or radical critique\, or the Amer
 ican counterculture should put his book at the very top of their reading
  list.” —Jean-Pierre Depétris\, Gavroche: revue d’histoire populaire Ken
  Knabb has translated numerous works by Guy Debord and the Situationist 
 International\, including Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle (2014\; 
 reissued by PM Press in 2024)\, Debord’s Complete Cinematic Works (2026)
 \, and the Situationist International Anthology (2006\; reissued by PM P
 ress in 2024). Knabb’s own writings\, published in Public Secrets and po
 sted at his Bureau of Public Secrets website\, have been translated into
  more than fifteen languages. He is currently presenting a series of Zoo
 m webinars on The Society of the Spectacle and the Situationist Internat
 ional Anthology. This event made possible by support from the City Light
 s Foundation\n\nTickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ken-knabb-tickets-
 1998393870863?aff=oddtdtcreator\n\nhttps://findlocal.community/event/f5e
 da69f-189a-41ff-9475-2c94949a9b91
LOCATION:Canneti's Bookshop\, Moraga Way\, Orinda\, CA 94563
URL:https://findlocal.community/event/f5eda69f-189a-41ff-9475-2c94949a9b9
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