Raoul Vaneigems Treatise on Etiquette for the Young Generations aka "The Revolution of Everyday Life", is a refusal of representation and bureaucracy, and emphasizes autonomous desire, play and festivity. Featuring the original French title, this edition reflects the anarchistic impulse of the Situationist International and the events of May 1968.
The moment of revolt, which means now, is hallowing out for us in the hard rock of our daily lives, days that miraculously retain the delicious colours and the dreamlike charm which - like an Aladdins cave, magical and prismatic in an atmosphere all its own - is inalienably ours. The moment of revolt is childhood rediscovered, time put to everyones use, the dissolution of the market, and the beginning of generalised self-management.
Table of Contents
Introduction to the 2012 Edition by Jason McQuinn
Translator's Prefaces
Author's preface to the first French paperback edition
Author's introduction
Part one: Power's perspective
The insignificant signified
Humiliation
Isolation
Suffering
The decline and fall of work
Decompression and the third force
The age of happiness
Exchange and gift
Technology and its mediated use
Down quantity street
Mediated abstraction, abstracted mediation
Sacrifice
Separation
The organization of appearances
Roles
The fascination of time
Survival Sickness
Spurious opposition
Part two: Reversal of perspective
Reversal of perspective
Creativity, spontaneity and poetry
Masters without slaves
The space-time of lived experience and the rectification of the past
The unitary triad: self-realization, communication, participation
The interworld and the new innocence
'You won't fuck with us much longer!'
A toast to revolutionary workers