{"product_id":"9780872863927","title":"Tribe","description":"\u003cp\u003eBetween 1952 and 1954, Jean-Michel Mension haunted Saint-Germain-des-Pres as a member of the legendary Letterist International, direct progenitor of the Situationist International. In a series of conversations, Mension recounts this very particular vie de boheme whiled away with Guy Debord and a rogue's gallery of hard drinkers and thinkers.  The Tribe is a rare, vivid tour of a moment and milieu barely noticed at the time by the tourists who flocked to the Left Bank for a glimpse of Sartre \u0026amp; Co. The rich iconography includes many of Ed van der Elsken's celebrated photographs of \"the tribe\" and a trove of Letterist leaflets and posters. A rare, vivid tour of a moment and milieu barely noticed at the time by the tourists flocking to Saint-Germain for a glimpse of Sartre \u0026amp; Co.  \"The Tribe relates the Parisian wanderings of a heterogeneous group of individuals who cultivated laziness and revolt, alcohol and talk, drift and chance, creative hopes and encounters ...in quest of a Rimbaldian derangement of all the senses, of detournement of art and daily life in the defiance of order, by vandalism, by deliquency, but also by an altogether contemporary quest for a supersession of Marxism.\"-Le Monde libertaire  \"In his oral memoir The Tribe, Jean-Michel Mension provides a useful context for [Guy] Debord's particular estrangement from postwar modernity. Mension reveals a multicultural dimension that is rarely explored in the burgeoning literature on this group ...\" -McKenzie Wark, Bookforum  \"Mension, who began submitting writing to the Letterist journal at 18, recounts life in this fascinating, emphatically improvident, quasi-anarchist subculture, delivering vivid anecdotes and a still-fresh scoff-law sensibility.\" -Publishers Weekly  Jean-Michel Mension (1934 - 2006) misspent his youth in Saint-Germain-des-Pres in the early 1950s before joining the Communist Party in 1962 and the Ligue Communiste in 1968. The Tribe is Mension's first book; he published his second in 2001: Le Temps gage: aventures politiques et artistique d'un irregulier a Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jean-Michel Mension","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52713614639422,"sku":"9780872863927","price":0.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/files\/9780872863927.jpg?v=1765292580","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9780872863927","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}