Bureau of Public Secrets

Known for his translations of Guy Debord and the Situationist International, Ken Knabb is a translator, writer and radical theorist. Mr. Knabb has kindly donated texts from the Bureau of Public Secrets to the People’s Library. His current writings regarding the Occupation can be found here:

The Awakening in America (general overview of the Occupy movement)
http://www.bopsecrets.org/recent/awakening.htm
[The webpage includes a link for PDF format.]

Oakland (on the Oct. 25 police raid and aftermath)
http://www.bopsecrets.org/recent/occupy-oakland-raid.htm

Welcome to the Oakland General Strike
http://www.bopsecrets.org/recent/oakland-general-strike.htm

For those not able to come to the People’s Library to read Mr. Knabb’s writings and translations:

The Situationists and the Occupation Movements (1968/2011)
(comparisons with May 1968 occupation movement in France)
http://www.bopsecrets.org/recent/situationists-occupations.htm

There are also, of course, many other texts at the site that have some relevance, including:

The Joy of Revolution (Knabb)
(visions of a liberated society and how we might get there)
http://www.bopsecrets.org/PS/joyrev.htm

The Society of the Spectacle (Debord)
(the most important radical book of the 20th century)
http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/debord/index.htm

Situationist International Anthology
http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/index.htm

The latter includes these texts on May 1968:
http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/12.era1.htm (in-depth article by Debord)
http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/May68docs.htm (leaflets etc.)
http://www.bopsecrets.org/CF/graffiti.htm (graffiti)

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