Paradise Now! The Story of Spectacular Times.
2026Edited by Rory Robertson-Shaw and Dante Philp.
In the 1980s, a series of pocket-sized pamphlets quietly changed how a generation thought about the world. Larry Law's Spectacular Times took the dense and often impenetrable theories of the Situationist International and made them funny, cheap, and impossible to put down. This book, written to coincide with the return of Spectacular Times to print, celebrates Larry’s life and work through newly commissioned essays, never-before-seen photographs, and vivid testimony from those who knew him. Nearly four decades after Larry’s untimely death in 1988, Spectacular Times remains unsuperseded. This volume explores Larry and the scene in which he existed to recover a world of radical print culture, community-building, and the stubborn conviction that another life is possible. Paradise now!
In the 1980s, a series of pocket-sized pamphlets quietly changed how a generation thought about the world. Larry Law's Spectacular Times took the dense and often impenetrable theories of the Situationist International and made them funny, cheap, and impossible to put down. This book, written to coincide with the return of Spectacular Times to print, celebrates Larry’s life and work through newly commissioned essays, never-before-seen photographs, and vivid testimony from those who knew him. Nearly four decades after Larry’s untimely death in 1988, Spectacular Times remains unsuperseded. This volume explores Larry and the scene in which he existed to recover a world of radical print culture, community-building, and the stubborn conviction that another life is possible. Paradise now!
