Guy Debord's The Game Of War. Public performance of Situationist strategy.
6pm-9pm, Tuesday 23 October 2007 01zero-one, Hopkins Street, Soho, London W1F 0HS FREE Part of the London Games Festival Fringe Class Wargames will play Guy Debord’s The Game of War using a replica of his original 1977 design for the board game “Politics is a continuation of war by other means.” The Game of War is a Clausewitz simulator: a Napoleonic-era military strategy game where armies must maintain their communications structure to survive - and where victory is achieved by smashing your opponent’s supply network rather than by taking their pieces. “The 1789 French Revolution brought great changes in the art of war. Similarly, the establishment of spectacular domination has radically altered the art of government.” Debord is celebrated as the leader of the Situationist International and as the author of the searing critique of the media-saturated society of consumer capitalism: The Society of the Spectacle. What is much less well known is that after the May ’68 Revolution, Debord and his partner - Alice Becker-Ho - quit Paris and went to live in a remote French village. Over the next two decades, Debord devoted much of the rest of his life to inventing, refining and promoting what he came to regard as his most important project: The Game of War. http://www.londongamesfringe.com/ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
