FOOTNOTES FROM HISTORY IBD

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Footnotes from History: the Debord Variations is based on a late essay by Guy Debord in which he revises and extends some of the ideas he developed in his seminal treatise âÇÖThe Society of the SpectacleâÇÖ. In a series of poetic fragments and quotations Campbell Robinson improvises with DebordâÇÖs themes as revealed in the footnotes to this essay. Political assassination and word death, the revolution of the everyday and the failure to realise the utopian dreams of the 60s, the breakdown of solidarity and the threat of terrorisms in peopleâÇÖs daily lives are among the subjects Campbell Robinson touches upon. However, at no point does the piece become proscriptive or didactic, maintaining throughout the possibility of âÇÖboth/andâÇÖ rather than âÇÖeither/orâÇÖ.Footnotes follows on from Campbell RobinsonâÇÖs earlier texts collected in Blue Solitude, also issued by Knives Forks Spoons Press, by employing a combination of non-illustrative photos taken by the author and a calligraphic text layout. In this respect the text reflects the montage techniques employed by Guy Debord in his seven groundbreaking films made between 1952 and 1994.á