'Like a pack of bastard dogs': Agitators, rebels and the revolutionary mentality in Paris

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Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 23-30

  Hussey, Andrew ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 61249523676     PISSN: 13534645     EISSN: 1460700X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13534640500264123     Document Type: Review

References (30)

1. For a fuller description of the role of these terms in the creation of a Parisian mythology of revolution see Patrice Higonnet, Paris, Capital of the World (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002), p.46.
2. Michael Sheringham, 'Introduction', Parisian Fields (London: Reaktion, 1996), pp.1-8;
3. Adrian Rifkin, Street Noises: Parisian Pleasure, 1900-1940 (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1993), pp.12-15;
4. Christopher Prendergast, Paris and the Nineteenth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp.23-27
5. and Eric Hazan, L'Invention de Paris (Paris: Fiction & Cie, 2003).
6. See the Situationist International Anthology, ed. by and trans. Ken Knabb (Berkeley: Bureau of Public Secrets, 1981), p.137.
7. For an explanation of these terms see Jean Riverain, Chroniques de l'argot (Paris: Guy Victor, 1963), pp.34-35.
8. See also, Hazan, L'Invention de Paris.
9. Randle Cotgrave, A Dictionarie of the English and French Tongues (London, 1611), Bibliothèque nationale de France, BHVP, Nef.22765.
10. For a recent survey of opinions on the Fronde see Colin Jones, Paris, Biography of a City (London: Penguin, 2004), pp.143-145.
11. Richard Cobb, 'The Revolutionary Mentality in France', in The French and their Revolution (London: Murray, 1998), pp.7-11.
12. The theory of 'moments' is best delineated in Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space, trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith (Oxford: Blackwell, 1997), pp.36-38.
13. See, for example, the review by Jean-Baptiste Morain in Les Inrockuptibles (September 2004) who describes the film as 'clichéd, ridiculous and superficial'.
14. The role of the Situationist International in the 'events' of May 1968 is analyzed in Andrew Hussey, 'Abolish Everything!', London Review of Books (2 September 1999), pp.29-33.
15. See Andrew Hussey, 'Le Musée Guy Debord', in The Game of War: The Life and Death of Guy Debord (London: Cape, 2001), p.7.
16. An authoritative account of the formation of the SI and these opening speeches is given in Ralph Rumney, Le Consul (Paris: Allia, 1999), pp.54-57.
17. Situationist Anthology, p.138.
18. See Hussey, The Game of War, p.156.
19. Raoul Vaneigem, The Revolution of Everyday Life (San Francisco: Red and Black, 1988), p.123.
20. Guy Debord, The Veritable Split in the International, (London: Chronos, 1990), p.11.
21. Many of these radical currents are mapped in recent works such as Claire Auzias, Un Paris révolutionnaire (Paris: Dagorno, 2004)
22. Actuel, histoire d'un journal 'underground' (Paris: Denoel, 2004) or documented in recent journals such as Pavé!
23. For an account of Situationist influence on contemporary pornography see also, Ovidie, Porno manifesto (Paris: Flammarion, 2002).
24. T. J. Clark, The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and his Followers (London: Thames and Hudson, 1985).
25. See T. J. Clark, The Painting of Modern Life, p.9.
26. Jean Baudrillard, 'What Are You Doing after the Orgy?', Traverses 29 (1983), pp. 2-15
27. and The Spirit of Terrorism (London: Icon, 2003).
28. See Paul Julian Smith in 'Juan Goytisolo and Jean Baudrillard: the Mirror of Production and the Death of Symbolic Exchange', Revista de estudios hispánicos 23 (1989), pp.37-61.
29. Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999), p.364.
30. See Alexander Varias, Paris and the Anarchists (London: Macmillan, 1997), p.34.