The Revolution of Everyday Life

The most striking aspect of Vaneigem’s compendium of Free Spirit Lore is his ability to release the material into the present … you can almost feel the whole great edifice of social order–their Church, our capitalist democracy–gather itself up, take a deep breath, and run. –Greil Marcus, author, Lipstick Traces on The Movement of the Free Spirit

Raoul Vaneigem is a writer and a former member of the Situationist International and is a key theorist in the worldwide Occupy movement. His works include The Book of Pleasures, A Cavalier History of Surrealism, Contributions to the Revolutionary Struggle, A Declaration of the Rights of Human Beings, The Movement of the Free Spirit, and The Totality for Kids. Donald Nicholson-Smith is a former member of the Situationist International and a translator of the works of Guy Debord, Henri Lefebvre, Jean-Patrick Manchette, Thierry Jonquet, and Paco Ignacio Taibo II. He lives in New York City.