Author Archives: antyphayes

The independence of the commodity (2)

Posted on March 12, 2018

Page 37 of internationale situationniste no. 10 has exerted a strange fascination for me since I first saw it. The striking way it combines the reproduction of a contemporary ad, appended with Situationist critical commentary, completes this détournement. Unfortunately, the novel … Continue reading →

Posted in Critique, Détournement, I.S. no. 10, Situationist International, Translation | Tagged advertising, alien power, alienation, appearance, commodity, commodity fetish, ideology, independence, independence of the commodity, internationale situationniste, IS 10, L'independance de la marchandise, MARBLEPUNK, NOT BORED!, objectification, revolution, situationist, Situationist International, society of the spectacle, spectacle, submission, tautology, unconscious | Leave a comment

On tonight’s program… the unconscious

Posted on March 9, 2018

Originally from the pages of internationale situationniste, no. 8, January 1963

Posted in Détournement, Situationist International, Translation | Tagged advertising, détournement, internationale situationniste, is 8, propaganda, situationist, Situationist International, television, tv | Leave a comment

Aktion Surreal 1991-1994

Posted on January 31, 2018

Back in 2011 Gerald Keaney published a critical account of the group Aktion Surreal. Aktion Surreal (hereafter AS) was formed in late 1991 by myself and Gerald. Early the following year we launched the group on an unsuspecting world (ok, … Continue reading →

Posted in Critique, Research Notes | Tagged 1990s, Action Surreal, Aktion Surreal, Anthony Hayes, anti-art, ANU, art, artists, Australian National University, Canberra, Canberra 1990s, Gerald Keaney, National Gallery of Australia, performance poetry, philosophy, Piltdown Frauds, poetry, Revolution By Night, Sex-Pol, students, Surrealism, Surrealist poetry | 1 Comment

How the Situationist International became what it was

Posted on January 5, 2018

I finally submitted my thesis on the SI last April, 2017. It was accepted by the university in August of the same year after being given the green light by my three markers. It is available here. So, the project … Continue reading →

Posted in Critique, Research Notes, Situationist International | Tagged ANU, art, Attila Kotànyi, avant-garde, constructed situation, Cornelius Castoriadis, Guy Debord, Hamburg Theses, Marx, Marxism, politics, Raoul Vaneigem, situation, situationist, Situationist hypothesis, thesis | 2 Comments

A Palinode for the Bureau

Posted on June 29, 2017

A little over two years ago I applauded Eric-John Russell’s review of Ken Knabb’s revised translation of The Society of the Spectacle, saying: Knabb’s attempt to make Debord’s work more accessible seems to have ossified it – perhaps inadvertently. On further reflection, … Continue reading →

Posted in Critique | Tagged Anthony Hayes, Comments on the Society of the Spectacle, Eric-John Russell, Guy Debord, Ken Knabb, Marx and Philosophy Review of Books, Preface to to the fourth Italian edition, review, Situationist International, society of the spectacle, The Society of the Spectacle, translation | Leave a comment

Beyond salvage: Andrea Gibbons on the Situationists

Posted on October 13, 2016

In late 2015 Andrea Gibbons published an article entitled, Salvaging Situationism: Race and Space. If we leave aside for the moment her maladroit use of the term ‘situationism’, what we find is an argument charging the predominantly white, male membership … Continue reading →

Posted in Critique, Research Notes | Tagged A Civil War in France, Abdelhafid Khatib, Algeria, Algerian, Algerian War, alienation, Andrea Gibbons, Asger Jorn, Attempt at a Psychogeographical Description of Les Halles, Communication prioritaire, critique, Déclaration sur le droit à l’insoumission dans la guerre d’Algérie, dérive, Declaration on the Right to Insubordination in the Algerian War, drift, Essai de description psychogéographique des Halles, France, Gerald Keaney, Guy Debord, I.S. no. 1, I.S. no. 2, I.S. no. 7, ideology, internationale situationniste, L'internationale situationniste, Les Halles, Mahomed Dahou, Manifeste des 121, Manifesto of the 121, Maurice Wyckaert, Michèle Bernstein, Paris massacre of 1961, Pont Saint-Michel, Priority Communication, psychogeography, Raoul Vaneigem, récupération, Saint-Michel Bridge, Salvage, Salvaging Situationism: Race and Space, sio, situationism, situationist, Situationist International, situationist international online, translation, Une guerre civile en France, unitary urbanism | 2 Comments

A Letter to ‘Rojavist’ Friends

Posted on August 15, 2016

The French language version of this letter is available here. For more information see the Class War Group’s website. A PDF of the English language version available here. For more critical information of Rojava see the article ‘Kurdistan?’(+ enlarged version of this article … Continue reading →

Posted in Critique, Translation | Tagged anarchism, anarchists, anti-authority, Arab, Asayish, Class War Group, Dave Graeber, democratic revolution, guerrillas, In the Crossfire: Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary, Iraq, IS, Islamic State, Kurdish, Kurdistan, Kurds, nation state, national liberation, national liberation movement, national liberation movements, nationalism, Ngo Van, Pinar Öğünç, PKK, Police, PYD, Rojava, SDF, Syria, Syrian civil war, T.K.G.V., TŘÍDNÍ VÁLKA, US Special Forces, YPG, YPJ | Leave a comment

Author Archives: antyphayes

The independence of the commodity (2)

On tonight’s program… the unconscious

Aktion Surreal 1991-1994

How the Situationist International became what it was

A Palinode for the Bureau

Beyond salvage: Andrea Gibbons on the Situationists

A Letter to ‘Rojavist’ Friends

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