Category Archives: I.S. no. 10

The independence of the commodity (2)

Posted on March 12, 2018 by antyphayes

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

Once more on Dada

Posted on April 30, 2016 by antyphayes

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 | 2 Comments

“Socialism or Planète”

Posted on October 31, 2013 by antyphayes

[from Internationale Situationniste, no. 10, March 1966] We put forward several apparently risky assertions with the assurance of subsequently seeing an historical display of their undeniable seriousness. The more limited our remarks — for example when we analyse a detail … Continue reading →

Posted in I.S. no. 10, Situationist International, Translation | Tagged advertising, apparatus, Arguments, Association pour la recherche des cultures, CFDT, CFTC, Claude Planson, Confédération Française Démocratique du Travail, Confédération Française des Travailleurs Chrétiens, constituted imaginary, Cornelius Castoriadis, Cornelius Castoriadis Political and Social Writings Volume 3, critique, Daniel Mothé, David Ames Curtis, Edgar Morin, False Consciousness: An Essay on Reification, First International, Freud, General Council, Godard, i.s. no. 10, ideology, International Workingmen’s Association, internationale situationniste, IWA, Jacques Rougerie, Jan Kott, Jean Duvignaud, Jean Vilar, Joseph Gabel, Karl Marx, Kathleen Blamey, Ken Knabb, Kostos Axelos, L'internationale situationniste, Louis Pauwels, MARBLEPUNK, Marxism, Marxism and Revolutionary Theory, Maurice Béjart, Militant chez Renault, nature, needs, NOT BORED!, Paul Cardan, Planète, Poland, Polish uprising of January 1863, Postface to “Recommencing the Revolution”, psychoanalysis, récupération, Recommencing the Revolution, revolution, sexual needs, situationism, situationist, Situationist International, Socialisme ou Barbarie, society of the spectacle, spectacle, The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, the imaginary, The Imaginary Institution of Society, Theatre of Nations, totality, translation, true needs, USSR, Wilhelm Reich, Yvon Bourdet | 2 Comments

The production of decadence

Posted on October 23, 2013 by antyphayes

[from Internationale Situationniste no. 10, March 1966] “There are already machines specially constructed to serve no useful purpose. Here is the best: on sale in New York, for a dollar, [there is] a self-eating machine. As soon as you press … Continue reading →

Posted in I.S. no. 10, Situationist International, Translation | Tagged alienation, automobile, C.I.A., commodity, commodity fetish, critique, Elle, eNCOUNTER, France-Soir, Free University of New York, ideology, internationale situationniste, Irving Kristol, L'internationale situationniste, Michel Gordrey, New York, NOT BORED!, objectification, revolution, situationist, Situationist International, students, teach-in, The Northeast blackout of 1965, translation, university students, Vietnam Day Committee, Vietnam War, Wall Street Journal, Watts Riots 1965 | 1 Comment

The packaging of “free-time”

Posted on October 10, 2013 by antyphayes

[from Internationale Situationniste no. 10, March 1966] Through the art of advertising’s reuse of all the scraps of partial critical conclusions, our epoch will teach to those who are more accommodating that those who speak more or less [about] the … Continue reading →

Posted in I.S. no. 10, Situationist International, Translation | Tagged advertising, alienation, Baron Edmond de Rothschild, Charles Fourier, Club Méditerranée, Club Med, commodity, critique, détournement, freedom-commodity, holidays, i.s. no. 10, ideology, internationale situationniste, L'internationale situationniste, Le Nouvel Observateur, Montaigne, NOT BORED!, package holidays, Planète, psychodrama, récupération, situationist, Situationist International, society of the spectacle, spectacle, translation, vacations | 1 Comment

The Fundamental Structures of Reification

Posted on August 22, 2013 by antyphayes

[from Internationale Situationniste no. 10, March 1966] As though old Marx directed everything from his grave, the commodity form has contributed, by the logic of its real development, to the clarification and deepening of the critique of political economy. Admittedly … Continue reading →

Posted in I.S. no. 10, Situationist International, Translation | Tagged 19th century bourgeois, alienation, blousons noirs, bourgeois, commodity, commodity fetish, commodity-form, commodity-spectacle, critique, cybernetic society, cybernetician, détourner, Friedrich Nietzsche, gestures, hooligans, i.s. no. 10, identity, ideology, Jean Garnault, Karl Marx, L'internationale situationniste, metaphysical subtleties, Middle Ages, NOT BORED!, objectification, reification, religious civilization, Renaissance, revolution, situationist, Situationist International, society of the spectacle, spectacle, The Gay Science, translation, wage labour, Watts Riots 1965 | Leave a comment

The independence of the commodity

Posted on September 23, 2012 by antyphayes

The autonomy of the commodity is at the root of the dictatorship of appearance; of the fundamental tautology of the spectacle, where importance is always presupposed and defined by the staging of importance. The prefabricated pseudo-event which dominates and orients … Continue reading →

Posted in I.S. no. 10, Situationist International, Translation | Tagged advertising, alien power, alienation, appearance, commodity, ideology, independence, MARBLEPUNK, NOT BORED!, objectification, revolution, situationist, Situationist International, society of the spectacle, spectacle, submission, tautology, unconscious | 1 Comment

The concentrated spectacular

Posted on September 9, 2012 by antyphayes

In the under-developed zones of the world market, gathered together in the ideology and – at the extreme – in a single man, all that is guaranteed by the state as indisputably admirable must be applauded and consumed passively. The … Continue reading →

Posted in I.S. no. 10, Situationist International, Translation | 1 Comment

The diffuse spectacular

Posted on September 4, 2012 by antyphayes

Newly arrived at the stage of commodity abundance, capitalism disperses its representations of happiness – and thus of hierarchical success – in an infinity of objects and gadgets expressing, really and deceptively, so many appendages to the stratifications of consumer … Continue reading →

Posted in I.S. no. 10, Situationist International, Translation | 1 Comment

Category Archives: I.S. no. 10

The independence of the commodity (2)

Once more on Dada

The production of decadence

The packaging of “free-time”

The Fundamental Structures of Reification

The independence of the commodity

The concentrated spectacular

The diffuse spectacular

Recent Posts

Archives

Categories

My Blogs

Links

Situ resources

Meta

Follow Blog via Email