Tag Archives: Arguments

Translator’s afterword to ‘On the role of the SI’

Posted on June 16, 2022 by antyphayes

Translator’s afterword to ‘On the role of the SI’ A translation of ‘On the role of the SI’ is available here. If there is an article in which the Hamburg Theses of 1961 appear clearest, the conclusions of the Theses … Continue reading →

Posted in I.S. no. 7, Situationist International, Translation notes | Tagged Alexander Trocchi, alienation, André Frankin, Arguments, Attila Kotànyi, Constant Nieuwenhuis, critique, détournement, Ernest Eugène Appert, Felix Guattari, General Claude Lecomte, Generals Jacques Leon Clément-Thomas, Gilles Deleuze, Gruppe Spur, Guy Debord, Hamburg Theses, Henri Lefebvre, Herbert Marcuse, ideology, internationale situationniste, inverted utopia, J.-F. Lyotard, Jean Baudrillard, Lucien Goldmann, nucelar fallout shelter, positive pole of alienation, Raoul Vaneigem, Reuben Keehan, Sarcelles, situationist, Situationist International, society of the spectacle, Thèses de Hambourg, The role of the SI, The Society of the Spectacle, utopia | 3 Comments

On the role of the SI—Internationale Situationniste number 7

Posted on May 31, 2022 by antyphayes

On the role of the SI (from Internationale Situationniste no. 7, April 1962) We are totally popular. We only consider problems that are already latent in the population. Situationist theory is in people like fish are in water. To those … Continue reading →

Posted in Critique, I.S. no. 7, Situationist International, Translation | Tagged Alexander Trocchi, alienation, Arguments, Attila Kotànyi, critique, détournement, Ernest Eugène Appert, General Claude Lecomte, Generals Jacques Leon Clément-Thomas, Guy Debord, Hamburg Theses, hidden, ideology, internationale situationniste, inverted utopia, L'internationale situationniste, nucelar fallout shelter, Paris Commune 1871, positive pole of alienation, Potlatch, Raoul Vaneigem, Sarcelles, situationist, Situationist International, society of the spectacle, Thèses de Hambourg, The role of the SI, Tony Armstrong-Jones, total communication, utopia | 1 Comment

Marxisms: Ideologies and Revolution (Mustapha Khayati)

Posted on April 9, 2016 by antyphayes

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 | 6 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

Plagiarism for all, not just boring poets!

Posted on October 3, 2013 by antyphayes

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 →

Posted in Critique, Research Notes, Situationist International | 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 | 19 Comments

Well said S.I.!

Posted on June 11, 2013 by antyphayes

[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 →

Posted in I.S. no. 9, Situationist International, Translation | Tagged Alain Resnais, Alain Robbe-Grillet, alienation, and the Domination of Nature, André Breton, appearance, Arguments, Cinema After Alain Resnais, Classes, coherence, commodity, Frédéric de Towarnicki, Harry Dickson, Hiroshima mon amour, I.S. no. 7, I.S. no. 9, ideological function, Ideologies, ideology, Jacques Sternberg, Je t'aime, Ken Knabb, L'Année dernière à Marienbad, L'Immortelle, L'internationale situationniste, Marguerite Duras, Michèle Bernstein, modernism, modernity, New Wave, NOT BORED!, Nouvelle Vague, Omni, One More Try if you Want to be Situationists, Planète, post modernism, récupération, science fiction, situationist, Situationist International, society of the spectacle, spectacle, submission, Sunset Boulevard, Wired | 2 Comments

Correspondence with a Cybernetician

Posted on June 10, 2013 by antyphayes

[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 →

Posted in I.S. no. 9, Situationist International, Translation | Tagged Abraham Moles, alien power, alienation, Arguments, Émile Durkheim, cybernetician, cybernetics, détournement, Graham Greene, Guy Debord, Henri Lefebvre, ideology, L'internationale situationniste, Lucien Goldmann, Michael Young, Nicole Beaurain, objectification, récupération, revolution, situation, situationism, situationist, Situationist International, submission, technology, Vance Packard | 1 Comment

“controlled froth”

Posted on May 26, 2013 by antyphayes

[from Internationale Situationniste no. 9, August 1964] “controlled froth” With the controlled froth of PAX-OMATIC, more of the froth-overflow deteriorates your machine. The extracts which follow are a good example – inscribed in the ridiculous jargon of the specialists of … Continue reading →

Posted in I.S. no. 9, Situationist International, Translation | Tagged alienation, Arguments, Cornelius Castoriadis, Donald Nicholson-Smith, dramaturgy, France-Observateur, Georges Lapassade, Guy Debord, I.S. no. 9, Isidore Isou, Jacob L. Moreno, Karl Marx, L'internationale situationniste, Lettrism, Marc Pierret, Marc-Gilbert Guillaumin, Marc’O, On the Poverty of Student Life, participation, Paul Cardan, psychodrama, Raoul Vaneigem, René Lourau, Reuben Keehan, Situationist International, Situationist Library, Socialisme ou Barbarie, society of the spectacle, spectacle, theatre, U.N.E.F. | 1 Comment

Situationist News – December 1960

Posted on October 2, 2012 by antyphayes

The first issue of the magazine Spur (the trail), organ of the German section of the S.I., was published in Munich in August 1960, opening with a translation of the Situationist manifesto of the 17th of May [1960]. The second … Continue reading →

Posted in I.S. no. 5, Not Bored!, Situationist International, Translation | Tagged Alexander Trocchi, Arguments, Asger Jorn, Cahier pour un paysage à inventer, Constant Nieuwenhuis, Daniel Blanchard, Edgar Morin, Erwin Eisch, Giors Melanotte, Giuseppe Pinot-Gallizio, Gruppe Spur, Guy Debord, Jean Rouch, Manifeste des 121, NOT BORED!, Patrick Straram, Pavillon de Breteuil, Pierre Canjuers, Radama, Silkeborg Museum, Situationist International, Situationist Library, Situationist News, Socialisme ou Barbarie, Tom McDonough | 4 Comments

Tag Archives: Arguments

Translator’s afterword to ‘On the role of the SI’

On the role of the SI—Internationale Situationniste number 7

Marxisms: Ideologies and Revolution (Mustapha Khayati)

Plagiarism for all, not just boring poets!

Well said S.I.!

Correspondence with a Cybernetician

“controlled froth”

Situationist News – December 1960

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