Raoul Vaneigem Cited on Biological Weapons in Recent Issue of International Peacekeeping
One of my old pieces that collaged New York Times articles and the writings of Situationist Raoul Vaneigem has found its way into a journal called International Peacekeeping. The authors cite the article, authored by one “R. Vaneigem,” as describing “the views of Prime Minister Tony Blair’s government on Iraqi possession of WMD’s.”
I can’t say that I’m proud of misleading a group of well-intentioned scholars about details of this most recent Iraq war, but then again, they should have read the article and noted its context on arras.net. They didn’t, in fact, quote from the text, and so Vaneigem’s impact on future historians’ views of the war will be quite minimal.
You can see the citation in footnote 45 (on the second page).
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1 Response to “Raoul Vaneigem Cited on Biological Weapons in Recent Issue of International Peacekeeping”.
This would be sad, if it weren’t so funny! A situation that could have been torn from the Situationists’ own playbook… it practically begs for a follow-up text on your part…
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