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Category Archives: Research Notes
Aktion Surreal 1991-1994
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
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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
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How the Situationist International became what it was
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
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
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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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Archive update
I’ve finally got around to organising this blog some more. Check out the new ‘Articles’ option on the menu above (between ‘About’ and ‘I.S. 1958-1969”): Articles And over at my other blog, works & days of the antyphayes, I have … Continue reading
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Tagged alien planet, alienation, Antarctica, antyphayes, big bro-ther, big brother, boredom, Canberra, cards, Christmas, commodity, counter-boredom, critique, cut-up, détournement, Doctor Shamass, Ern Malley Press, flash fiction, future, Gerald Keaney, Hegel, ideology, Immanuel Kant, Inverted World, Isidore Ducasse, Karl Marx, Lord Jacks & ass., Mars, new world, new world order, notes from the sinister quarter, performance poetry, poetry, poiesis, praxis, science fiction, sf, short story, situationist, Southern Ocean, steam punk, Sydney, tentacles, the good Doctor, The Old Ones, transcendental, video, zine, zines
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Wither NFTSQ?
It has been a while since my last post. I have been distracted by writing up my thesis (amongst other things). I have also wondered about the role of this blog. Initially I set it up to support my research … Continue reading
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Tagged alienation, critique, ideology, récupération, Situationist International
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Toward the realisation of philosophy
Recently I presented a paper at a graduate history conference at the University of Sydney. The paper is called Toward the realisation of philosophy: The Situationist International between 1957 and 1960. It is brief and has a rather abrupt end. … Continue reading
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Tagged 5th Conference, alienation, André Breton, Asger Jorn, Attila Kotànyi, CoBrA, Constant Nieuwenhuis, constructed situation, critique, Dada, Grouppe Spur, Guy Debord, Hamburg Theses, internationale situationniste, Karl Marx, L'internationale situationniste, pdf, Raoul Vaneigem, revolution, Situationist International, situationists, society of the spectacle, spectacle, Surrealism, unitary urbanism
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Plagiarism for all, not just boring poets!
from the conclusion: “we begin to find a real alternative to the plagiarism of Nunn and Slattery, and indeed any plagiaristic activity which by merely aping the ideology of the bourgeois ‘atom’ reinforces a false account of all creative activity. … Continue reading
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Tagged alienation, Andrew Slattery, Angry Penguins, Antony Lawrence, Arguments, collage, commodity, Comte de Lautreamont, crass Cartesianism, critique, cultural studies, Dada, détournement, Ern Malley, Gil J. Wolman, Graham Nunn, Guy Debord, Henri Lefebvre, ideology, Ira Lightman, Isidore Ducasse, Justin Clemens, Karl Marx, Kenneth Goldsmith, L'internationale situationniste, labour-power, Les Chants de Maldoror, Les Lèvres Nues, M.T.C. Cronin, plagiarism, poetry, postmodernism, récupération, situationist, Situationist International, society of the spectacle, spectacle, surplus-value, Surrealism, theft, value
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Dead Real
A post at my other blog that may interest readers of the Sinister Quarter: Dead Real.
Power
(Notes toward a Situationist Dictionary) The Situationist International (SI) used the term ‘power’ (‘pouvoir’) in two ways. First they used it as a verb, ‘pouvoir’, which translates as ‘to be able to’ or ‘to be capable of’. Thus they characterized … Continue reading
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Tagged Alain Touraine, Asger Jorn, Constant Nieuwenhuis, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts, essential powers, John Holloway, Karl Marx, labour-power, le pouvoir, Michel Foucault, Mustapha Khayati, pouvoir, power, powers, proletariat, Raoul Vaneigem, Serge Mallet, Situationist International, The German Ideology, value-form
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