Guy Debord – La Java des bons enfants [2006]

[Debord, Guy] Raymond la Science (pseud.) La java des bons enfants, accompagnée de trois portraits linogravés, dont deux loupés de Jean-Michel Alberola. Grignan: Colophon, 7 Juillet 2006. 22 p.; ill.; 18 cm.; cream cover with text in red and black, uncut pages. One of 130 copies, including 30 signed and numbered by Jean-Michel Alberola (ours #26). Reproduces the lyrics of the anarchist / Situationist song “La Java des bons enfants”, along with 3 illustrated portraits by Jean-Michel Alberola. The song (and lyrics) were first featured in “Pour en finir avec le travail. Chansons du prolétariat révolutionnaire”, an LP released in 1974 (nore detailed here: https://situationnisteblog.com/2015/04/06/pour-en-finir-avec-le-travail-lp-1974/). While the author of the song is identified as “Raymond la science” – the pseudonym of Raymond Callemin, a notorious member of the anarchist Bonnot Gang – this was a Situationist detournement: Guy Debord is the rightful author of the lyrics,while Francis…

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