The Revolution of Everyday Life

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Summary: the most important, to the point book on human life
Review: "the revolution of everyday life" is absolutely beyond words, and for that very reason absolutely immune to all assimilation. it captures the main problem with life that we are all (perhaps even the most stupid of us) aware of but cannot quite put our finger on: a lingering emptiness, a 'nothing' where a 'something' should be. this is the magic of vaneigem's prose. he knows the real cause of it, and rightfully accuses us of ignoring and dawdling for so long: the social order and the alienation it causes. he advocates fierce rebellion, joyful suicide, above all collective revolution as an end to all isolation an ennui. vaneigem is not only a political revolutionary: he is a socioliogist, a great poet, a man of words and action. (although i'm sure he would hate me for calling him any of those things.) ultimately, he is himself, and this should be enough for us to change our lives completely. vaneigem wants no following, no idolatry; he wants what everyone really wants, change. vache, cravan, all the great dada and surrealist rebels are quoted at length in this impassioned tome which will only grow more and more important with age-actually, it really doesn't age. it is the NOW sitting in front of our eyes at every moment of every day embodied in a book. everyone in the world should read this book.

Rating:
Summary: the most important, to the point book on human life
Review: "the revolution of everyday life" is absolutely beyond words, and for that very reason absolutely immune to all assimilation. it captures the main problem with life that we are all (perhaps even the most stupid of us) aware of but cannot quite put our finger on: a lingering emptiness, a 'nothing' where a 'something' should be. this is the magic of vaneigem's prose. he knows the real cause of it, and rightfully accuses us of ignoring and dawdling for so long: the social order and the alienation it causes. he advocates fierce rebellion, joyful suicide, above all collective revolution as an end to all isolation an ennui. vaneigem is not only a political revolutionary: he is a socioliogist, a great poet, a man of words and action. (although i'm sure he would hate me for calling him any of those things.) ultimately, he is himself, and this should be enough for us to change our lives completely. vaneigem wants no following, no idolatry; he wants what everyone really wants, change. vache, cravan, all the great dada and surrealist rebels are quoted at length in this impassioned tome which will only grow more and more important with age-actually, it really doesn't age. it is the NOW sitting in front of our eyes at every moment of every day embodied in a book. everyone in the world should read this book.

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Summary: "Radical simply means 'grasping at the roots'..."
Review: A visionary wrenching of the self away from the alienation of consumerism and boredom.... but don't buy this book here! If you are interested in this book and others like it, support independent booksellers.... (AK Press is a great one)

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Summary: Read this for free
Review: http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/

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Summary: The book that change my life!
Review: Throughout the history of resistance in Western cultures, there hasn't been such an intense group then the Situationist. With breakthrough writers such as Debord, Law, and Vaneigem; the experience of resistance never felt so liberating.

The Revolution of Everydaylife is a diffinitive book that will take you on an adventure through the banalities of everyday life. With eloquence and great articulation, Vaneigem conveys a life that cannot be explored by any other writer.

I highly recommend this book to any individual who plans to liberate themselves from a world of sheer repression and boredom.