Greil Marcus' "Lipstick Traces"

[Don Antenen]

I would actually argue against reading the Marcus book.  I think Marcus' take on the Situationists, for example, is very confused and oftentimes factually incorrect (not as bad as Stewart Home but in the same ballpark of bad).  Even Len Bracken's biography of Debord does a better job.  Merrifeld's bio does better than both.

In the case of the SI, I encourage anyone who's interested to settle down with Debord's Society of the Spectacle as well as the Situationist Anthology.  The latter might be an easier introduction than the former, but both are very readable.  Semiotexte also recently began printing the first 'official' English editions of Debord's correspondence, as well as the novels of his first wife Michele Bernstein.

More late 60's radical fringe stuff:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_Against_the_Wall_Motherfuckers
http://libcom.org/history/against-wall-motherfucker-interview-ben-morea
Point Blank! (early 70's group in California influenced by the Situationists)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provo_%28movement%29

Maybe some of that will be relevant.

all the best,
Don



      
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