Critique of everyday life - Henri Lefebvre

The three-volume text by Henri Lefebvre is perhaps the richest, most
prescient work about modern capitalism to emerge from one of the
twentieth century's greatest philosophers and is now available for the
first time in one complete volume. Written at the birth of post-war
consumerism, Critique was an inspiration for the 1968 student
revolution in France. It is a founding text of cultural studies and a
major influence on the fields of contemporary philosophy, geography,
sociology, architecture, political theory and urbanism. Lefebvre takes
as his starting point and guide the "trivial" details of quotidian
experience: an experience colonized by the commodity, shadowed by
inauthenticity, yet remaining the only source of resistance and change.
This is an enduringly radical text, untimely today only in its
intransigence and optimism.