Raoul Vaneigem (born 1934) is a Belgian writer and philosopher. He was born in Lessines (Hainaut, Belgium). After studying romance philology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles from 1952 to 1956, he participated in the Situationist International from 1961 to 1970. Lessines is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Hainaut. ... Hainaut (French; English traditionally Hainault, Dutch: Henegouwen, German: Hennegau, Walloon: Hinnot) is the westernmost province of Wallonia, in Belgium. ... Philology is the study of ancient texts and languages. ... A building on the ULBs main campus The Université Libre de Bruxelles (or ULB) is a French-speaking university in Brussels, Belgium. ... The Situationist International (SI), an international political and artistic movement, originated in the Italian village of Cosio dArroscia on 28 July 1957 with the fusion of several extremely small artistic tendencies: the Lettrist International, the International movement for an imaginist Bauhaus, and the London Psychogeographical Association. ...

Vaneigem and Guy Debord were the two principal theoreticians of the Situationist movement. Although Debord was the more disciplined thinker, Vaneigem's slogans frequently made it onto the walls of Paris during the May 1968 uprisings. His most famous book, and the one that contains the famous slogans, is The Revolution of Everyday Life (in French the title was more elaborate: Traité du savoir-vivre à l'usage des jeunes générations). Guy Ernest Debord (December 28, 1931, in Paris – November 30, 1994, in Champot) was a writer, film maker, hypergraphist and founding member of the groups Lettrist International and Situationist International (SI). ... The Revolution of Everyday Life is a 1967 book by Raoul Vaneigem, Belgian author, philosopher and former member of the Situationist International (1961-1970). ...

After leaving the Situationist movement Vaneigem wrote a series of polemical books defending the idea of a free and self-regulating social order. He frequently made use of pseudonyms, including "Julienne de Cherisy," "Robert Desessarts," "Jules-François Dupuis," "Tristan Hannaniel," "Anne de Launay," "Ratgeb," and "Michel Thorgal." Recently he has been an advocate of a new type of strike, in which service and transportation workers provide services for free and refuse to collect payment or fares.

From www.nothingness.org: "Along with Guy Debord, the voice of Raoul Vaneigem was one of the strongest of the Situationists. Counterpoised to Debord's political and polemic style, Vaneigem offered a more poetic and spirited prose. The Revolution of Everyday Life (Traité de savoir-vivre à l'usage des jeunes générations), published in the same year as The Society of the Spectacle, helped broaden and balance the presentation of the SI's theories and practices. One of the longest SI members, and frequent editor of the journal Internationale Situationniste, Vaneigem finally left the SI in November of 1970, citing their failures as well as his own in his letter of resignation. Soon after, Debord issued a typically scathing response denouncing both Vaneigem and his critique of the Situationist International." The Society of the Spectacle is a 1967 book by Guy Debord, which developed concepts relating to modern culture and commodity fetishism. ...

Further biographical information can be found at www.nothingness.org and www.notbored.org.

Partial bibliography

• The Revolution of Everyday Life, (Traité du savoir-vivre à l'usage des jeunes générations)
• Traité du savoir-vivre à l'usage des jeunes générations in french
• Le livre des plaisirs, (The Book of Pleasures), 1979, reprinted 1993.
• L'Ile aux delices, (The Island of Delights), an erotic novel, 1979.
• Le mouvement du libre-esprit (The Movement of the Free Spirit), 1986.
• Adresse aux vivants sur la mort qui les gouverne et l'opportunité de s'en défaire, 1990
• Lettre de Staline à ses enfants enfin réconciliés de l'Est et de l'Ouest, 1992
• La résistance au christianisme. Les hérésies des origines au XVIIIe siècle, 1993
• Les hérésies, 1994
• Avertissement aux écoliers et lycéens, 1995
• Nous qui désirons sans fin, 1996
• La Paresse, 1996
• Notes sans portée, 1997
• Dictionnaire de citations pour servir au divertissement et à l'intelligence du temps, 1998
• Déclaration des droits de l'être humain. De la souveraineté de la vie comme dépassement des droits de le l'homme, 2001
• Pour une internationale du genre humain, 2001
• Salut à Rabelais!, 2003

1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• English and French texts on nothingness.org library
• Raoul Vaneigem archive on libcom.org library