At a time when Algeria is ablaze, the present collection brings together some of the situationist and post-situationist texts written from the 1960s to the present day by unjustly overlooked authors such as Mezioud Ouldamer.

Although very much in the minority, this internationalist current, which rejected both the colonels and the Soviet sun, produced writings that deserve to be recalled and revived.
As Nedjib Sidi Moussa, the author of this book, writes:

“Certainly, the members of the Situationist International and those who sought to pursue this experience never had a monopoly on social critique. But they formulated it with intransigence, despite some illusions or overestimation of its subversive potential. And while it may seem perilous to place ourselves above their radicalism, we can hardly place ourselves below the sensitivities with which they dialogued or polemicized. There is an urgent need to reappropriate such a legacy, on pain of squandering it. We cannot fight exploitation and alienation - in all their forms, from the most hideous to the most seductive - by excluding play, love, camaraderie and poetry from our struggles.”