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Tag Archives: commodity
The independence of the commodity (2)
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
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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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Never Work – Cardiff University Conference – Friday 10 July 2015 – Call for Papers
from MARBLEPUNK “A corpse rules society – the corpse of labour.” – Manifesto Against Labour, Krisis-Group Since the 1970s modern societies have been increasingly faced with social issues caused by a reliance on a form of life that technological development … Continue reading
Posted in Critique, Situationist International
Tagged 10 July 2015, against labour, Alastair Hemmens, alienation, Anselm Jappe, anti-politics, Cardiff University, commodity, communism, conference, crisis, critique, détournement, Gruppe Krisis, Guy Debord, Karl Marx, labour, MARBLEPUNK, ne travaillez jamais, never work, Norbert Trenkle, praxis, revolution, Situationist International, society of the spectacle
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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
Posted in Research Notes
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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The production of decadence
[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
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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
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
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Dead Real
A post at my other blog that may interest readers of the Sinister Quarter: Dead Real.
Well said S.I.!
[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
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