Greil Marcus' "Lipstick Traces"

[Joseph Tracy]

Leonard Bracken is my cousin. Smallish world.

On Aug 16, 2009, at 7:28 PM, Don Antenen wrote:

> 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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