Monthly Archives: June 2013

Well said S.I.!

[from Internationale Situationniste no. 9,  August 1964] “This dose of pretentious errors obliges us to make a re-examination of [Alain] Resnais… Despite the references he made to André Breton around the time of the release of Hiroshima [mon amour], Resnais … Continue reading

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Correspondence with a Cybernetician

[from Internationale Situationniste no. 9,  August 1964] Abraham A. MOLES – judging by his letterhead: Doctor of Letters (Phil.), Doctor of Science (Phys.), engineer, assistant professor (University of Strasbourg), Professor of the E.O.S.T.[1] – has addressed, on the 16th of … Continue reading

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and the S.I.?

[from La Banquise, no. 4, 1986] and the S.I.?[1] A critique of the S.I. [Situationist International] was announced in the first issue of La Banquise. A text remains to be written.[2] It should not resemble a record, still less a … Continue reading

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The peculiar anxiety of Sam Cooper

Wayne Spencer has written an excellent critique of the English academic Sam Cooper. Cooper, a relatively new academic-commodity and colleague of McKenzie Wark, is in the process of carving out his career niche via a highly idiosyncratic (that is an … Continue reading

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Wark will set you free

The intellectual wark-camps of the future (aka “universities” etc.), will, no doubt, produce other undertakers of the Situationist project as they will produce more autopsies of once living revolutionary contestation. We have attacked McKenzie Wark not in order to mindlessly … Continue reading

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