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Author Archives: antyphayes
Beyond salvage: Andrea Gibbons on the Situationists
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
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A Letter to ‘Rojavist’ Friends
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
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Smashing the fash with ideas
Mick Armstrong demonstrates, despite himself, that ideas and rational argument are central to the creation of a mass movement against creeping fascism and capitalism. However his argument tends to err on the side of a false dilemma: either rational argument or … Continue reading
Posted in Critique
Tagged alienation, Andrew Bolt, Anthony Hayes, anti-bigotry, anti-facism, anti-racism, Australia, communism, criticism, critique, culturalism, dialectics, Fascism, Gerald Keaney, Guy Debord, ideas, ideology, Karl Marx, Mick Armstrong, One Nation, Pauline Hanson, practice, racism, Red Flag, revolution, situationist, Socialist Alternative, society of the spectacle, Sonia Kruger, spectacle
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Once more on Dada
100 years ago the word “Dada” was coined to name the riot of destructive possibility unfurling at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich. The “discovery” of the term is disputed by interested parties (now dead). One of the participants in the Parisian Dada group, … Continue reading
Posted in Critique, I.S. no. 10, Situationist International
Tagged André Breton, André Gide, Arthur Rimbaud, Asger Jorn, Computational poetry, Concrete poetry, Dada, Experimental poetry, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Gruppe Spur, Hegel, Hierarchical Power, James Joyce, Ken Knabb, L'internationale situationniste, Lautréamont, Marcel Duchamp, Marquis de Sade, Max Bense, modern art, Mustapha Khayati, neo-Dada, Oulipo, Pierre Garnier, power, Raymond Queneau, situationist, Situationist International, Sophocles, Spartakusbund, Surrealism, Surrealist poetry, Tel Quel
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Marxisms: Ideologies and Revolution (Mustapha Khayati)
Note: a PDF of this document can be found here. Note: Translation updated August 2016 TRANSLATOR’S INTRODUCTION Mustapha Khayati, then member of the Situationist International, wrote the booklet Les Marxismes : Idéologies et révolution for the Encyclopédie du monde actuel … Continue reading
Posted in Critique, Situationist Dictionary, Situationist International, Translation, Translation notes
Tagged Adorno, alienation, Arguments, Bela Kun, Clara Zetkin, commodity, communism, critique, Donald Nicholson-Smith, Edgar Morin, Encyclopédie du monde actuel, Eric Fromm, François Châtelet, Franz Mehring, Friedrich Engels, Georg Lukács, Georges Lapassade, Georgi Plekhanov, German Revolution, Gramsci, Guy Debord, György Lukács, Hegel, Henri Lefebvre, Herbert Marcuse, Horheimer, Hungarian Revolution, Hungary 1956, ideology, Jean Duvignaud, Julius Martov, Karl Kautsky, Karl Korsch, Karl Liebknecht, Karl Marx, Kostas Axelos, Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Les Marxismes, Les Marxismes : Idéologies et révolution, LibCom, Louis Althusser, Lucien Goldmann, Mao, Marx, Marxism, Maurice Lachatre, Mehdi, Mustapha Khayati, NOT BORED!, Pete Dunn, Pierre Fougeyrollas, Raoul Vaneigem, revolution, Roger Garaudy, Rosa Luxembourg, Russian Revolution, Sigmund Freud, situationist, Situationist International, Spartacus League, Spartakusbund, Stalin, translation, Vera Zasulich, Wilhelm Reich
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Warhol’s fake boxes: It’s the economy, stupid
The following essay was first published on the now defunct blog http://antyphayes.blogsome.com/ on 9 January 2008. I wrote it in response to the “revelation” that the Warhol Brillo boxes then on display at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art were “fakes”. … Continue reading
A Palinode for the Bureau
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 →