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Tag Archives: situationist
The Hamburg Theses of September 1961—Guy Debord
The Hamburg Theses of September 1961(Note to serve in the history of the Situationist International)[1] The ‘Hamburg Theses’ [‘Thèses de Hambourg’] surely constitute the most mysterious of all the documents that emerged from the SI; among which many have been … Continue reading
Posted in Situationist International, Translation, Translation notes
Tagged Alexander Trocchi, Attila Kotányi, Guy Debord, Hamburg, Hamburg Theses, Les theses de Hambourg en septembre 1961, Michèle Bernstein, Raoul Vaneigem, situationist, Situationist International, Thèses de Hambourg, The Hamburg Theses of September 1961
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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
How the Situationist International became what it was
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
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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Smashing the fash with ideas
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
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