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Tag Archives: internationale situationniste
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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On tonight’s program… the unconscious
Originally from the pages of internationale situationniste, no. 8, January 1963
Beyond salvage: Andrea Gibbons on the Situationists
In late 2015 Andrea Gibbons published an article entitled, Salvaging Situationism: Race and Space. If we leave aside for the moment her maladroit use of the term ‘situationism’, what we find is an argument charging the predominantly white, male membership … Continue reading
Posted in Critique, Research Notes
Tagged A Civil War in France, Abdelhafid Khatib, Algeria, Algerian, Algerian War, alienation, Andrea Gibbons, Asger Jorn, Attempt at a Psychogeographical Description of Les Halles, Communication prioritaire, critique, Déclaration sur le droit à l’insoumission dans la guerre d’Algérie, dérive, Declaration on the Right to Insubordination in the Algerian War, drift, Essai de description psychogéographique des Halles, France, Gerald Keaney, Guy Debord, I.S. no. 1, I.S. no. 2, I.S. no. 7, ideology, internationale situationniste, L'internationale situationniste, Les Halles, Mahomed Dahou, Manifeste des 121, Manifesto of the 121, Maurice Wyckaert, Michèle Bernstein, Paris massacre of 1961, Pont Saint-Michel, Priority Communication, psychogeography, Raoul Vaneigem, récupération, Saint-Michel Bridge, Salvage, Salvaging Situationism: Race and Space, sio, situationism, situationist, Situationist International, situationist international online, translation, Une guerre civile en France, unitary urbanism
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The New Adventures of the Dialectic – STARTING TODAY!
king communism – poster 11 “THE NEW ADVENTURES OF THE DIALECTIC” “Next week: The World Turned Upside Down” — Coming soon, the postcard… — In the same month that issue 8 of internationale situationniste was published the Situationist International issued a postcard … Continue reading
Posted in Critique, Détournement
Tagged antyphayes, communism, critique, détournement, Guy Debord, Hegel, internationale situationniste, king communism, king communist, L'internationale situationniste, La Revanche de la Dialectique, Les Aventures de la Dialectique, Marx, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, objectification, situationist, Situationist International, society of the spectacle, The New Adventures of the Dialectic, The World Turned Upside Down
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Three Situationists walk into a bar…
A new article by me on the Situationist International and the Hamburg Theses published in the online journal Axon number 8. Available here: THREE SITUATIONISTS WALK INTO A BAR Or, the peculiar case of the Hamburg Theses Unfortunately ‘marxism’ is … Continue reading
Posted in Critique, Situationist International
Tagged Alexander Trocchi, alienation, Attila Kotànyi, critique, détournement, Guy Debord, Hamburg Theses, ideology, internationale situationniste, L'internationale situationniste, Marx, Marxism, objectification, Raoul Vaneigem, récupération, Situationist International, society of the spectacle, spectacle, Thèses de Hambourg
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RAOUL VANEIGEM: Self-Portraits and Caricatures of the Situationist International
New from NOT BORED!, a translation-détournement of Rien n’est fini, tout commence, by Gérard Berréby and Raoul Vaneigem. From the translator’s preface: To date, though there have been dozens of detailed histories written about the development of the Situationist International (the “SI”), … Continue reading
Posted in Critique, Not Bored!, Situationist International, Translation
Tagged Asger Jorn, Attila Kotànyi, Clairette Schock, critique, détournement, Fabienne Lesage, Gérard Berréby, Guy Debord, Henri Lefebvre, internationale situationniste, Jacques Le Glou, Michèle Bernstein, Mustapha Khayati, NOT BORED!, Pierre Lotrous, Raoul Vaneigem, René Viénet, Rien n’est fini tout commence, Sébastien Coffy, situationism, situationist, Situationist International, society of the spectacle, spectacle, Thèrése Dubrule, translation, Yves Raynaud
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Toward the realisation of philosophy
Recently I presented a paper at a graduate history conference at the University of Sydney. The paper is called Toward the realisation of philosophy: The Situationist International between 1957 and 1960. It is brief and has a rather abrupt end. … Continue reading
Posted in Critique, Research Notes, Situationist International
Tagged 5th Conference, alienation, André Breton, Asger Jorn, Attila Kotànyi, CoBrA, Constant Nieuwenhuis, constructed situation, critique, Dada, Grouppe Spur, Guy Debord, Hamburg Theses, internationale situationniste, Karl Marx, L'internationale situationniste, pdf, Raoul Vaneigem, revolution, Situationist International, situationists, society of the spectacle, spectacle, Surrealism, unitary urbanism
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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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