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Tag Archives: Situationist International
The Sinister Science
I have started a new blog over at the sinister science. There I will continue to write about situationists and critical theory and practice, but with the added focus of science fiction. Yep, that’s right, the barely repressed science fictional … Continue reading
Spectacle in Space
Doing our bit for 50 years of cold war shenanigans and the alienation of technique and knowledge in the service of spectacular power. The text on the poster is adapted from Eduardo Rothe’s text The Conquest of Space in the … Continue reading
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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Once more on Dada
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
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Marxisms: Ideologies and Revolution (Mustapha Khayati)
Note: a PDF of this document can be found here. Note: Translation updated August 2016 TRANSLATOR’S INTRODUCTION Mustapha Khayati, then member of the Situationist International, wrote the booklet Les Marxismes : Idéologies et révolution for the Encyclopédie du monde actuel … Continue reading
Posted in Critique, Situationist Dictionary, Situationist International, Translation, Translation notes
Tagged Adorno, alienation, Arguments, Bela Kun, Clara Zetkin, commodity, communism, critique, Donald Nicholson-Smith, Edgar Morin, Encyclopédie du monde actuel, Eric Fromm, François Châtelet, Franz Mehring, Friedrich Engels, Georg Lukács, Georges Lapassade, Georgi Plekhanov, German Revolution, Gramsci, Guy Debord, György Lukács, Hegel, Henri Lefebvre, Herbert Marcuse, Horheimer, Hungarian Revolution, Hungary 1956, ideology, Jean Duvignaud, Julius Martov, Karl Kautsky, Karl Korsch, Karl Liebknecht, Karl Marx, Kostas Axelos, Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Les Marxismes, Les Marxismes : Idéologies et révolution, LibCom, Louis Althusser, Lucien Goldmann, Mao, Marx, Marxism, Maurice Lachatre, Mehdi, Mustapha Khayati, NOT BORED!, Pete Dunn, Pierre Fougeyrollas, Raoul Vaneigem, revolution, Roger Garaudy, Rosa Luxembourg, Russian Revolution, Sigmund Freud, situationist, Situationist International, Spartacus League, Spartakusbund, Stalin, translation, Vera Zasulich, Wilhelm Reich
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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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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 →