Spectacular Times: The Complete Collection boxset

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 boxset marks the return of Spectacular Times to print, and includes Paradise now! The story of Spectacular Times which celebrates Larry’s life and work through newly commissioned essays, never-before-seen photographs, and vivid testimony from those who knew him.

978-1-911788-14-0 Spectacular Times Collection

Includes:

978-1-911788-00-3 Spectacular Times 01: Images A6 pocketbook

978-1-911788-01-0 Spectacular Times 02: Everyday life A6 pocketbook

978-1-911788-02-7 Spectacular Times 03: The media A6 pocketbook

978-1-911788-03-4 Spectacular Times 04: Fin De Spectacle A6 pocketbook

978-1-911788-04-1 Spectacular Times 05: Into the Endgame A6 pocketbook

978-1-911788-05-8 Spectacular Times 06: Food A6 pocketbook

978-1-911788-06-5 Spectacular Times 07: Women and the Spectacle A6 pocketbook

978-1-911788-07-2 Spectacular Times 08-09: Skeleton Keys A6 pocketbook

978-1-911788-08-9 Spectacular Times 10: Animals A6 pocketbook

978-1-911788-09-6 Spectacular Times 11: More of the Shame A6 pocketbook

978-1-911788-10-2 Spectacular Times 12: The Bad Days Will End A6 pocketbook

978-1-911788-11-9 Spectacular Times 13: Cities of Illusion A6 pocketbook

978-1-911788-12-6 Spectacular Times 14: Bigger Cages and Longer Chains A6 pocketbook

978-1-911788-13-3 Paradise now! The story of Spectacular Times. A6 pocketbook

Texts by Larry Law. 16.8.1945 - 22.7.1988

We would like to thank Liz for her support for our republishing of Spectacular Times. She would like to say that everyone is free to reproduce Larry’s work- it doesn’t belong to her, and everyone used to shoplift it anyway. We would also thank our friends & comrades at Freedom Bookshop, 56a Infoshop, Interference Archive, Sparrows Nest Archive and MayDay Rooms for archival support.

Please note that adverts in the back of the pocketbook are very out of date.

This edition published by Agit Press in conjunction with Active Distribution in 2026

Image restoration based on archival scans: roryrobertsonshaw.net

Softcover, 105 x 148 mm