Class Wargames Presents "The Game of War" @ Essex
2:00 PM, June 10th @ the Waiting Room, St Botolphs (http://st-botolphs.org)
The Street with No Name (off Queen Street) Colchester, Essex CO1 2PQ
Class Wargames (http://www.classwargames.net) will come to Essex on June
10th to present "The Game of War,” staging a participatory playing of
Guy Debord's board military-strategy board game.
Class Wargames is playing Guy Debord’s The Game of War using a replica
of his original 1977 design for the board game. Guy Debord is celebrated
as the chief strategist of the Situationist International and author of
the searing critique of the media-saturated society of consumer
capitalism: The Society of the Spectacle. What is less well known is
that after the French May ’68 Revolution, Debord devoted much of the
rest of his life to inventing, refining and promoting what he came to
regard as his most important project: The Game of War.
The Game of War is a Clausewitz simulator: a Napoleonic era military
strategy game where armies must maintain their communications structure
to survive - and where victory is achieved by smashing your opponent’s
supply network rather than by taking their pieces. For Debord, The Game
of War wasn’t just a game - it was a guide to how people should live
their lives within Fordist society. By playing this Clausewitz
simulator, revolutionary activists could learn how to fight and win
against the oppressors of spectacular society.
Politics is a continuation of war by other means. Wargames are a
continuation of politics by other means.
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