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The Uprising in France  [NEW]
Analysis of the nationwide movement of demonstrations, occupations, blockades and �blitz actions.� With translations of documents and graffiti and links to texts, photos and videos.
 
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Situationist International Anthology
Ken Knabb’s translations from the notorious group that helped trigger the May 1968 revolt in France. Articles, film scripts and internal documents by Guy Debord, Raoul Vaneigem, etc., from the situationists’ early experiments in cultural subversion and urban “psychogeography” to their lucid analyses of the Watts riot, the Vietnam war, the Prague Spring, the Chinese “Cultural Revolution” and other crises and upheavals of the sixties. Newly revised and expanded.
 
The Society of the Spectacle (Guy Debord)
Knabb�s new translation of the most important radical book of the twentieth century.
 
Guy Debord’s Films
Latest news about Debord�s films plus excerpts from Knabb�s new translation of the scripts.
 
Public Secrets
Knabb’s own publications over the last three decades. Two major new texts — “The Joy of Revolution” (visions of a liberated society and how we might get there) and “Confessions of a Mild-Mannered Enemy of the State” (autobiography) — plus earlier articles, leaflets and posters on the sixties counterculture, Wilhelm Reich, Gary Snyder, radical Buddhists, Chinese anarchists, the 1970 Polish revolt, the 1979 Iranian uprising, the Gulf war, etc.

Gateway to the Vast Realms
A list of over 500 books that Knabb recommends — classic and modern literature, religion and philosophy, science and psychology, humor and comics, history and revolution — with brief comments on why they are worth reading and passages from some of the recommended works.
 
Recent Publications and Polemics
The latest Bureau of Public Secrets publications plus selected opinions and polemics about the BPS.

Bureau Prehistory
Comics, leaflets and scandals of three early San Francisco Bay Area situationist groups.

Crossfire
Provocative radical documents, old and new � Karl Marx, Clarence Darrow, Randolph Bourne, Bertolt Brecht, Karl Korsch, Josef Weber, Paul Goodman, Gary Snyder, Jo Freeman, Raoul Vaneigem, May 1968 graffiti, etc.
 
Kenneth Rexroth Archive
Texts by and about the great poet, essayist and social critic Kenneth Rexroth, who wryly described his main themes as “sex, mysticism and revolution,” and who was the leading inspiration behind the San Francisco Renaissance of the fifties and sixties.
  

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