-
Recent Posts
Archives
- July 2021
- April 2021
- February 2021
- December 2020
- September 2020
- August 2020
- June 2020
- July 2019
- October 2018
- August 2018
- July 2018
- March 2018
- January 2018
- June 2017
- October 2016
- August 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- July 2015
- June 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- May 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- October 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
Categories
My Blogs
Links
- Bureau of Public Secrets
- Critical Encyclopaedia of Capitalism
- Cuadernos de Negación
- Danish Society for Comparative Vandalism
- ediciones inéditos
- Endnotes
- Exit (German + some English)
- Hic Salta – Communisation
- Insurgent Notes
- Internationalist Communist Group
- Internationalist Perspective
- Krisis (German + some English)
- MARBLEPUNK
- prole.info
- riff-raff
- Théorie Communiste
- Troploin (French & English)
- Wildcat (German + English + …)
Situ resources
- Bureau of Public Secrets
- Debordi@na (French)
- I.S. 1-12 in pdfs (Jorn Museum)
- I.S. 1-12 in pdfs (Ubu web)
- Internationale Situationniste in English
- Not Bored
- Situationist International Archives
- situationist international online
- Situationist Library
- Situationniste Blog ~ A Situationist Book Collector's Blog
- Socialisme ou Barbarie
Meta
Tag Archives: Cornelius Castoriadis
On Gilles Dauvé and the Situationist International
This article is available as a pdf here. I hope to publish a follow up in the near future in which I will critically examine Gilles Dauvé’s and Bruno Astarian’s critique of Marx’s value theory. Minor update, 15 December 2018 … Continue reading →
Posted in Critique, Situationist International
|
Tagged Attila Kotànyi, autogestion, autogestion généralisée, Comte de Lautreamont, Cornelius Castoriadis, Daniel Blanchard, détournement, downloading, generalised self-managment, Gianfranco Sanguinetti, Gilles Dauvé, Guy Debord, Isidore Ducasse, Karl Marx, Mustapha Khayati, Pierre Canjuers, Pouvoir Ouvrier, Raoul Vaneigem, self-managment, Situationist International, Socialisme ou Barbarie, workers councils
|
2 Comments
Spectacle of what?
This is an article I wrote a few months ago. It will soon be appearing in a Spanish translation in the journal 2&3DORM. The complete text of the article in the original English can be found in pdf format here. … Continue reading →
Posted in Critique, Situationist International
|
Tagged artificiality, Cornelius Castoriadis, falsehood, Guy Debord, ideology, Jacques Rancière, Jean Baudrillard, Jean-Luc Nancy, Karl Marx, Ludwig Feuerbach, metaphysics, mimesis, orthodox Marxism, reality, representation, society of the spectacle, the critique of Marxism, the Spectacle, truth
|
1 Comment
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 →
Socialisme ou Barbarie : projet de scannerisation
Originally posted on Criticism &c.:
The Socialisme ou Barbarie Scanning Project web site is back online with a nice new design. Criticism &c. hopes to review the newly-published history, Looking for the Proletariat: Socialisme ou Barbarie and the Problem…
Posted in Critique, Socialism or Barbarism
|
Tagged Cornelius Castoriadis, Socialisme ou Barbarie
|
Leave a comment
How to misunderstand Situationists & other Social-Barbarians
A new article by me criticizing Bernard Quiriny’s questionable attempt to make Cornelius Castoriadis the inspiration or even source of the Situationist theory of ‘the society of the spectacle’. PDF available here. Comments are welcome.
Posted in Critique, Situationist International, Socialism or Barbarism
|
Tagged André Frankin, Andre Girard, appearances of simulacra, Archives et documents situationnistes, Attila Kotànyi, Édouard Taubé, Bernard Quiriny, Christophe Bourseiller, Constant Nieuwenhuis, Cornelius Castoriadis, critique, Critique de la separation, Daniel Blanchard, David Ames Curtis, Debord, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georges Bataille, Guy Debord, Hiroshima mon amour, i.s. 1958-1969, in the Resounding Cataract of Time, J.-F. Lyotard, Jean Baudrillard, Jean-Luc Godard, L'internationale situationniste, La Société du Spectacle, Le cinéma et la révolution, Le cinema après Alain Resnais, Le Mouvement révolutionnaire sous le capitalisme moderne, Loren Goldner, Marxisme et theorie révolutionnaire, mass media, Modern Capitalism and Revolution, NOT BORED!, P. Canjuers, Phillipe Gottraux, Pierre Guillaume, Pour un jugement révolutionnaire de l’art, Pouvoir Ouvrier, Pouvoir Ouvrier Belgique, Preliminaires pour une definition de l'unite du programme revolutionnaire, Raoul Vaneigem, Rapport sur la construction des situations…, Recommencer la revolution, Robert Dehoux, Roland Barthes, Situationist International, social barbarians, Socialisme ou Barbarie, Socialisme ou Barbarie et l’Internationale situationniste : notes sur une « méprise », society of the spectacle, spectacle, Stephen Hastings-King, Sur le passage de quelques personnes à travers une assez courte unité de temps, T. J. Clark, The Society of the Spectacle, Vie et mort de Guy Debord 1931-1994, yellow zone
|
4 Comments
Daniel Blanchard – Helen Arnold – Richard Greeman – Socialisme ou barbarie
A recent video interview conducted in English by Richard Greeman: of himself, Daniel Blanchard and Helen Arnold – all of them former social barbarians. The discussion is relatively wide ranging, though covering mostly the time in which these three were … Continue reading →
Posted in Situationist International, Socialism or Barbarism
|
Tagged Cornelius Castoriadis, Daniel Blanchard, détournement, Debord, dirigeants, Edgar Morin, exécutants, Guy Debord, Helen Arnold, in the Resounding Cataract of Time, interview, J.-F. Lyotard, Karl Marx, L'internationale situationniste, NOT BORED!, order-givers, order-takers, Preliminaries Toward Defining a Unitary Revolutionary Program, Richard Greeman, Situationist International, social barbarians, Socialisme ou Barbarie
|
Leave a comment
“Socialism or Planète”
[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
|
Leave a comment
“controlled froth”
[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
thesinisterquarter.wordpress.com 