Le Jeu de la Guerre - Featured in The New Yorker

The most recsent issue of The New Yorker includes an article about Le Jeu de la Guerre, which writer Ben McGrath describes as "a kind of modernist take on chess conceived in 1977 by the Marxist philosopher and filmmaker Guy Debord, with inspiration from the military theorist Carl von Clausewitz." A rare edition of the game (with metal tokens) was featured in the recent "Form as Strategy" exhibit at Columbia University's Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture. The article, which discusses both the game displayed at the exhibition and efforts by Debord's widow to have an online implementation shut down, is interesting on several levels.