Longer works include The Relevance of Rexroth (a study of the anarchist poet and essayist Kenneth Rexroth), Gateway to the Vast Realms (a reader's guide to 500 recommended books), and The Joy of Revolution (an examination of the pros and cons of diverse radical tactics followed by some speculations on how a nonstate and noncapitalist postrevolutionary society might function).
Knabb's own writings include leaflets, comics, pamphlets and articles on Wilhelm Reich, Georges Brassens, Gary Snyder, the 1960s hip counterculture, the 1979 Iranian revolution, the 1991 Gulf war, and the 2006 anti-CPE revolt in France. His other translations include Guy Debord's film scripts ( Complete Cinematic Works), Debord's The Society of the Spectacle, and Ngo Van's In the Crossfire: Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary. In 1981 Knabb published the Situationist International Anthology, a large collection of articles drawn mostly from the French journal Internationale Situationniste. Over the next few years he taught himself French in order to read the original situationist writings (most of which were then unavailable in English) and made several extended visits to France to meet various situationist groups and individuals, as well as shorter trips to meet contacts in other European countries and in Japan and Hong Kong. Later that same year he discovered some pamphlets by the Situationist International and was so struck by them that he began experimenting with his own situationist-style critiques and interventions. In 1969, having become disillusioned with the increasingly authoritarian tendencies in the New Left movement, he became an anarchist. He attended Shimer College (Illinois) 1961-1965, then moved to Berkeley, California, where he took part in the countercultural and radical adventures of the sixties.
Knabb was born in Louisiana in 1945 and raised in Missouri. Ken Knabb is an American writer, translator, and theorist, best known for his translations of Guy Debord and the Situationist International. He holds a bachelor's degree from Shimer College in Chicago, where he enrolled via the early entrance program. More recently, Knabb has written extensively on the Occupy movement. His works include The Relevance of Rexroth (1990), the Situationist International Anthology (1981), and the collection Public Secrets (1997). 1945) is an American radical writer and translator, particularly known for his translations of Guy Debord and the Situationist International. This brief description is released under the CC0 copyright waiver. Kenneth Knabb was a student at Shimer College in the early Great Books period, enrolling through the early entrance program and graduating in 1966.
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