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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

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 →

Posted in Critique, Situationist International, Translation notes | Tagged 5th Conference, Alexander Trocchi, alienation, André Breton, Attila Kotànyi, Comte de Lautreamont, critique, dérive, détournement, Göteborg, Guy Debord, Hamburg, Hamburg Theses, Hurlements en faveur de Sade, I.S. no. 7, internationale situationniste, Karl Marx, Kazimir Malevich, L'internationale situationniste, Les theses de Hambourg en septembre 1961, Raoul Vaneigem, situationist, Situationist International, Socialisme ou Barbarie, society of the spectacle, Stephane Mallarmé, Thèses de Hambourg, The Hamburg Theses of September 1961, Thomas Y. Levin | 1 Comment

Beyond salvage: Andrea Gibbons on the Situationists

Posted on October 13, 2016 by antyphayes

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 | 2 Comments

Once more on Dada

Posted on April 30, 2016 by antyphayes

100 years ago the word “Dada” was coined to name the riot of destructive possibility unfurling at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich. The “discovery” of the term is disputed by interested parties (now dead). One of the participants in the Parisian Dada group, … Continue reading →

Posted in Critique, I.S. no. 10, Situationist International | Tagged André Breton, André Gide, Arthur Rimbaud, Asger Jorn, Computational poetry, Concrete poetry, Dada, Experimental poetry, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Gruppe Spur, Hegel, Hierarchical Power, James Joyce, Ken Knabb, L'internationale situationniste, Lautréamont, Marcel Duchamp, Marquis de Sade, Max Bense, modern art, Mustapha Khayati, neo-Dada, Oulipo, Pierre Garnier, power, Raymond Queneau, situationist, Situationist International, Sophocles, Spartakusbund, Surrealism, Surrealist poetry, Tel Quel | 2 Comments

The New Adventures of the Dialectic – STARTING TODAY!

Posted on July 3, 2015 by antyphayes

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 | Leave a comment

Three Situationists walk into a bar…

Posted on March 23, 2015 by antyphayes

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 | 1 Comment

How to misunderstand Situationists & other Social-Barbarians

Posted on November 13, 2014 by antyphayes

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

Posted on February 10, 2014 by antyphayes

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

Toward the realisation of philosophy

Posted on January 6, 2014 by antyphayes

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 | 1 Comment

“Socialism or Planète”

Posted on October 31, 2013 by antyphayes

[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 | 2 Comments

Tag Archives: L’internationale situationniste

On the role of the SI—Internationale Situationniste number 7

Once more on the Hamburg Theses

Beyond salvage: Andrea Gibbons on the Situationists

Once more on Dada

The New Adventures of the Dialectic – STARTING TODAY!

Three Situationists walk into a bar…

Toward the realisation of philosophy

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