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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

An eye for an eye . . .

Posted on May 20, 2022 by antyphayes

Originally posted on prole no prole If an eye for an eye is the motto of revenge, it can also be bad advice. On 29 April 2022, a white nationalist attacked Asger Jorn’s 1959 painting The Disquieting Duck (shown above … Continue reading →

Posted in Critique | Tagged anti-fascist, antifa, Asger Jorn, détournement, difigured painting, Le canard inquiétant, Le Long Voyage, modified painting, Pierre Wemaëre, Situationist International, The Disquieting Duck | 1 Comment

Once more on the Hamburg Theses

Posted on May 5, 2022 by antyphayes

[You can read my translation of Debord’s The Hamburg Theses of September 1961 here] Once more on the Hamburg Theses The plans announced in my last post with an eye to the 60th anniversary of the first publication of Internationale … Continue reading →

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Internationale Situationniste number 7, April 1962

Posted on April 8, 2022 by antyphayes

It is sixty years since Internationale Situationniste number 7 was published, dated April 1962. Partly in commemoration I plan on posting new translations of several articles from the seventh issue over the next month. Our world is arguably less distant … Continue reading →

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The new politics?

Posted on October 26, 2018 by antyphayes

I designed this image for an imaginary zine called ANTIANTIPOETRYPOETRY dated 1 March 2016. That means it’s been sitting in my dropbox since at least then, maybe a bit before. I called it “the new politics”. There is little new … Continue reading →

Posted in Critique, Détournement | Tagged 2016, anti-poetry, anti-politics, antiantipoetrypoetry, détournement, definition, Fascism, fascist, politics, popularism, Triumph of the Will, Trump, Trump of the Will | 1 Comment

On Gilles Dauvé and the Situationist International

Posted on October 22, 2018 by antyphayes

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 →