Laure Katsaros: 2 books

"The way [Guy Debord] used détournement in those years confirms what we already suspected about the deeper roots of his being: he needed others, he needed those marble statues, in order to make himself known, both as one and many. Détournement was a ritual through which images of others magically...

As New York and Paris began to modernize, new modes of entertainment, such as panoramas, dioramas, and photography, seemed poised to take the place of the more complex forms of literary expression. Dioramas and photography were invented in Paris but soon spread to America, forming part of an increasingly...