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“Thanks for Djambi,” Debord replied to Lebovici in a letter otherwise disdainful of the game. The game tokens are not modeled on a medieval court of kings, queens, knights, and bishops, but instead on the various political actors that make up the contemporary world: the news reporter, the provocateur, the activist militant, and the assassin. It proceeds not bilaterally like chess but multilaterally with four players. They enjoyed playing games together and had tried their hands at Djambi, a board game sent as a gift by Debord’s benefactor Gérard Lebovici. “These times don’t deserve a filmmaker like me.” 1ĭebord sequestered himself with his wife, Alice Becker-Ho, in the remote region of Auvergne. “The cinema seems to me to be over,” he wrote in a 1978 letter. By the late 1970s, his former glory as a radical filmmaker and author had faded. He became more nostalgic and self-absorbed, mixing manifesto with memoir.

His late life was beset by chronic illness brought on by an ever-growing appetite for food and drink. Philippe Sollers and Julia Kristeva turned to theology, to the New Philosophers, and in 1977 replaced their former pro-Maoist stance with a rather unexpected pro-Americanism.įrench Situationist Guy Debord never recovered from the crisis of the 1970s. The Situationist International disbanded in 1972. But around April or May of 1974-as Roland Barthes accompanied the Tel Quel editors to China to witness firsthand the Maoist theory they had been espousing back home, only to become entirely disillusioned with this new fad of militancy-the entire progressive theoretical framework of the 1960s began to slip away and become irrelevant. Emblematic of the period were militant collectives of various kinds, such as the Tel Quel group, or the Situationist International. It was a decade quick to begin and reluctant to end. In France, the 1960s lasted until about 1974.