Raoul Vaneigem

Raoul Vaneigem (/væneɪˈɡɛm/; French: [vanegɛm]; Dutch: [raːˈʋul vɑnˈɛiɣəm, raːˈʔul]; born 21 March 1934) is a Belgian writer known for his 1967 book The Revolution of Everyday Life.

Vaneigem was born in Lessines (in Hainaut, Belgium) and studied romance philology at the Free University of Brussels from 1952 to 1956.

Counterpoised to Guy 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 [Debord's] The Society of the Spectacle, helped broaden and balance the presentation of the SI's theories and practices.

[3]After leaving the Situationist International, Vaneigem wrote a series of polemical books defending the idea of a free and self-regulating social order.

This cartoon by Vaneigem, shown here on a page of the March 28, 1968 issue of Seattle underground paper Helix , was later published in Internationale Situationniste #12 (September 1969).