Tag Archives: situationist

Spectacle in Space

Posted on July 20, 2019 by antyphayes

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 →

Posted in Critique, Détournement, Situationist International | Tagged Apollo 11, astronauts, Buzz Aldrin, conquest of space, Eduardo Rothe, Friedrich Nietzsche, moonlanding, situationist, Situationist International, space | 1 Comment

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 →

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

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 →

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

Tag Archives: situationist

Spectacle in Space

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

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