Black Celebration (1988)

This engaged reading of the urban black riots of the 1960s references Guy Debords Situationist text The Decline and Fall of the SpectacleCommodity 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 defetishize the commodity through theft and gift Cokes asks How do people make history under conditions preestablished to dissuade them from intervening in it