Simple project in détournement, replacing the text and quotes from select stories in the New York Times with text from Raoul Vaneigem’s The Revolution of Everyday Life.

Visit the Vaneigem Series.

Read an interview with Giselle Beiguelman about this project (here is a PDF).

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.