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Tag Archives: Guy Debord
Translator’s afterword to ‘On the role of the SI’
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
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On the role of the SI—Internationale Situationniste number 7
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
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The Hamburg Theses of September 1961—Guy Debord
The Hamburg Theses of September 1961(Note to serve in the history of the Situationist International)[1] The ‘Hamburg Theses’ [‘Thèses de Hambourg’] surely constitute the most mysterious of all the documents that emerged from the SI; among which many have been … Continue reading
Posted in Situationist International, Translation, Translation notes
Tagged Alexander Trocchi, Attila Kotányi, Guy Debord, Hamburg, Hamburg Theses, Les theses de Hambourg en septembre 1961, Michèle Bernstein, Raoul Vaneigem, situationist, Situationist International, Thèses de Hambourg, The Hamburg Theses of September 1961
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Surrealism: an irrational revolution
A PDF of this document can be found here. Note that there are some differences between the version presented below and pdf (most notably, the complete bibliography is only available in the pdf version). This has also been posted on … Continue reading
Posted in Critique, Translation
Tagged Aimé Césaire, Alberto Giacometti, Alfred Jarry, André Breton, André Masson, Anthony Hayes, Antonin Artaud, Apollinaire, Arshile Gorki, Avida Dollars, Benjamin Péret, Braque, Cézanne, Charles Baudelaire, CNT-FAI, Comte de Lautréamont, critique, Dada, Der Blaue Reiter, Diego Rivera, Dostoyevsky, Ferdinand Alquié, Francis Picabia, French Communist Party, Freud, Gauguin, Gérard de Nerval, Georges Politzer, Georges Sadoul, Guy Debord, Hans Arp, Hegel, Henri Lefebvre, Henri Michaux, Isidore Ducasse, Jacques Prévert, Jacques Rigaut, Jacques Vaché, Kandinsky, Leon Trotsky, Louis Aragon, Luis Buñuel, Malevich, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Marx, Marxism, Max Ernst, modern art, Nicolas Calas, Norbert Guterman, Oscar Dominguez, Paul Éluard, Paul Klee, PCF, Picasso, Pierre Mabille, Pierre Naville, poetry, POUM, psychoanalysis, Raymond Queneau, René Char, René Crevel, René Magritte, Rimbaud, Robert Desnos, Roberto Matta, Salvador Dali, Sigmund Freud, Stalinism, Stephane Mallarmé, Surrealism, Surrealist poetry, Toyen, translation, Tristan Tzara, Victor Brauner, Wolfgang Paalen, Yves Tanguy
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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
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A Palinode for the Bureau
A little over two years ago I applauded Eric-John Russell’s review of Ken Knabb’s revised translation of The Society of the Spectacle, saying: Knabb’s attempt to make Debord’s work more accessible seems to have ossified it – perhaps inadvertently. On further reflection, … Continue reading →