times From: "margaret" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: bulk -----Original Message----- From: Bureau of Public Secrets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Saturday, 16 January 1999 17:05 Subject: The Most Brilliant Subversive Coup of Modern Times > >"The accused have never denied the charge of >misappropriating the funds of the Strasbourg Student Union. >Indeed, they openly admit to having charged the union 5000 >francs for the printing of 10,000 pamphlets, not to mention >the cost of other literature inspired by the 'Situationist >International.' These publications express aims and ideas >which, to put it mildly, have nothing to do with the purpose >of a student union. One has only to read what the accused >have written for it to be obvious that these five students, >scarcely more than adolescents, lacking any experience of >real life, their minds confused by ill-digested >philosophical, social, political and economic theories and >bored by the drab monotony of their everyday life, have the >pathetically arrogant and unwarranted pretension to pass >definitive judgments, sinking to outright insults, on their >fellow students, their professors, God, religion, the >clergy, and the governments and political and social systems >of the entire world. Rejecting all morality and legal >restraint, these cynics do not hesitate to advocate theft, >the destruction of scholarship, the abolition of work, total >subversion, and an permanent worldwide proletarian >revolution with 'unrestrained pleasure' as its only goal." > >--Judge Llabador, Strasbourg District Court (13 December >1966) > >* * * > >The situationists' notorious Strasbourg pamphlet, "ON THE >POVERTY OF STUDENT LIFE" -- one of the key factors leading >to the May 1968 revolt in France -- has been translated into >more than a dozen languages and reprinted in over half a >million copies. A new English translation, more accurate >than any of the previous versions, is now online at >http://www.slip.net/~knabb/SI/poverty.htm. > >Chapter 1 of the pamphlet is a scathing denunciation of >every aspect of student life, "economic, political, >psychological, sexual, and especially intellectual." Chapter >2 examines the positive features and limits of rebellious >youth currents of the sixties (delinquents, Dutch Provos, >American New Left, East European dissidents, British >antibomb movement, Japanese Zengakuren). Chapter 3 sums up >the lessons of the failure of the old revolutionary movement >and elucidates what is needed to develop a new one. > >The same site also includes new translations of the >situationist articles "Our Goals and Methods in the >Strasbourg Scandal" and "Beginning of an Era" (on the May >1968 revolt). There is also a brief discussion of the >scandal in chapter 2 of "The Joy of Revolution." > >* * * > >The new Bureau of Public Secrets website has received over >30,000 page hits from some 6000 visitors during its first >five months. It features extensive selections from Ken >Knabb's SITUATIONIST INTERNATIONAL ANTHOLOGY (translations >from the group that helped trigger the May 1968 revolt in >France) and from PUBLIC SECRETS, the recent collection of >Knabb's own writings, including "The Joy of Revolution," >"Confessions of a Mild-Mannered Enemy of the State," and an >assortment of comics, leaflets and articles on Wilhelm >Reich, Kenneth Rexroth, Gary Snyder, the sixties >counterculture, radical women, socially engaged Buddhists, >urban "psychogeography," the Watts riot, the Iranian >uprising, the Gulf war, and the recent jobless revolt in >France. New texts are being added every few days. > >BUREAU OF PUBLIC SECRETS >http://www.slip.net/~knabb > >* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * > >This information is being sent to you in the belief that you >may be interested in at least some of the texts at the BPS >site. If this is not the case, we apologize for any >annoyance and upon request will remove your address from our >list. > >* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * end ============== Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html The Year 2000 Bug - An Urgent Sustainability Issue http://www.peg.apc.org/~psutton/grin-y2k.htm
