The Joy of Revolution and Related Texts

“I’d especially recommend this book for people who are sympathetic to the idea of a nonhierarchical, nonstatist society but who are skeptical of how, in practice, it could ever happen. Knabb gives a lot of pointers and demolishes some common bugbears along the way, and it is all written with his rare combination of readability and logicality and élan.”–Eugenia Lovelace, Red and Black

“Ken Knabb has so thoroughly assimilated French language and culture that I sometimes have the impression that I’m talking with a compatriot. He does, however, retain that eminently North American quality of speaking clearly and directly, without showing off his intelligence or drawing attention to himself. Does this mean that his work is a sort of ‘Situationist International for Dummies’? No, although it could undeniably serve as such. Anyone who is unfamiliar with the Situationists, or radical critique, or the American counterculture should put his book at the very top of their reading list.”–Jean-Pierre Depétris, Gavroche: revue d’histoire populaire

Ken Knabb has lived in Berkeley, California, since 1965. He has translated numerous works by Guy Debord and the Situationist International, including The Society of the Spectacle. His own writings have been translated into more than a dozen languages.