Andrew Hussey is the author of ‘The Game of War: The Life and Death of Guy Debord’ and ‘Paris: The Secret History’. His biography of Isidore Isou will be published by Reaktion in 2021.

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Still from ‘Traité de bave et d’éternité’ (On Venom and Eternity; 1951), featuring Isidore Isou.

The second coming of Isidore Isou

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