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The independence of the commodity (2)

Posted on March 12, 2018 by antyphayes

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 | Leave a comment

On tonight’s program… the unconscious

Posted on March 9, 2018 by antyphayes

Originally from the pages of internationale situationniste, no. 8, January 1963

Posted in Détournement, Situationist International, Translation | Tagged advertising, détournement, internationale situationniste, is 8, propaganda, situationist, Situationist International, television, tv | Leave a comment

How the Situationist International became what it was

Posted on January 5, 2018 by antyphayes

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 →

Posted in Critique, Research Notes, Situationist International | Tagged ANU, art, Attila Kotànyi, avant-garde, constructed situation, Cornelius Castoriadis, Guy Debord, Hamburg Theses, Marx, Marxism, politics, Raoul Vaneigem, situation, situationist, Situationist hypothesis, thesis | 2 Comments

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 →

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Smashing the fash with ideas

Posted on August 8, 2016 by antyphayes

Mick Armstrong demonstrates, despite himself, that ideas and rational argument are central to the creation of a mass movement against creeping fascism and capitalism. However his argument tends to err on the side of a false dilemma: either rational argument or … Continue reading →

Posted in Critique | Tagged alienation, Andrew Bolt, Anthony Hayes, anti-bigotry, anti-facism, anti-racism, Australia, communism, criticism, critique, culturalism, dialectics, Fascism, Gerald Keaney, Guy Debord, ideas, ideology, Karl Marx, Mick Armstrong, One Nation, Pauline Hanson, practice, racism, Red Flag, revolution, situationist, Socialist Alternative, society of the spectacle, Sonia Kruger, spectacle | Leave a comment

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 →

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Marxisms: Ideologies and Revolution (Mustapha Khayati)

Posted on April 9, 2016 by antyphayes

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 →

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Tag Archives: situationist

The independence of the commodity (2)

On tonight’s program… the unconscious

How the Situationist International became what it was

Beyond salvage: Andrea Gibbons on the Situationists

Smashing the fash with ideas

Once more on Dada

Marxisms: Ideologies and Revolution (Mustapha Khayati)

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