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Black Celebration (1988)

This engaged reading of the urban black riots of the 1960s references Guy Debord's Situationist text, "The Decline and Fall of the Spectacle-Commodity Economy," Internationale Situationniste #10 (March 1966). Along with additional commentary adapted from Barbara Kruger and musicians Morrissey and Skinny Puppy, the text posits rioting as a refusal to participate in the logic of capital and an attempt to de-fetishize the commodity through theft and gift. Cokes asks, "How do people make history under conditions pre-established to dissuade them from intervening in it?

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