from Guy Debord

To Giorgio Agamben
Champot, 24 August 1989
Dear Sir:

Thanks for the press clippings[1] that you transmitted to me. I am happy to learn that Italy, despite certain quite serious obstacles, is better informed than France and several other countries, which are still at the moment of "Nashist"-museographical falsifications, laughably inaugurated by the burlesque "Pompidou Center."[2]

And most particularly because I myself have had the chance to learn much in Italy.

I send you a very recent book[3] to complete your intelligent documentation.

Quite cordially,
Guy Debord

[1] Il Manifesto of 6 July 1989, a special issue on I situazionisti (articles signed by G. Agamben, Paolo Virno, Luisa Passerini, Filippo Scarpelli, Enrico Ghezzi, Franco Poli and Alberto Piccinini).

[2] Exhibition entitled On the passage of several people through a brief moment in time: the Situationist International 1957-1972, opened February 1989.

[3] Panegyric.


(Published in Guy Debord Correspondance, Vol 7: Janvier 1988-Novembre 1994 by Librairie Artheme Fayard, 2008. Translated from the French by NOT BORED! December 2008. Footnotes by the publisher.)




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