Tag Archives: society of the spectacle

Spectacle of what?

Posted on July 20, 2018 by antyphayes

This is an article I wrote a few months ago. It will soon be appearing in a Spanish translation in the journal 2&3DORM. The complete text of the article in the original English can be found in pdf format here. … Continue reading →

Posted in Critique, Situationist International | Tagged artificiality, Cornelius Castoriadis, falsehood, Guy Debord, ideology, Jacques Rancière, Jean Baudrillard, Jean-Luc Nancy, Karl Marx, Ludwig Feuerbach, metaphysics, mimesis, orthodox Marxism, reality, representation, society of the spectacle, the critique of Marxism, the Spectacle, truth | 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

A Palinode for the Bureau

Posted on June 29, 2017 by antyphayes

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 →

Posted in Critique | Tagged Anthony Hayes, Comments on the Society of the Spectacle, Eric-John Russell, Guy Debord, Ken Knabb, Marx and Philosophy Review of Books, Preface to to the fourth Italian edition, review, Situationist International, society of the spectacle, The Society of the Spectacle, translation | 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

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

Review of McKenzie Wark’s The Beach beneath the Street

Posted on February 1, 2015 by antyphayes

This originally appeared on a now defunct blog, http://antyphayes.blogsome.com/ on 11 April 2012. It has been edited slightly. A shorter version of the review is available at the Marx & Philosophy Review of Books website. McKenzie Wark’s The Beach beneath the Street: The … Continue reading →

Posted in Critique, Situationist International | Tagged advertising, Alexander Trocchi, alienation, Anselm Jappe, anti-Situationist, Asger Jorn, Attila Kotànyi, Bureau of Public Secrets, Comments on the Society of the Spectacle, Constant Nieuwenhuis, Gruppe Spur, Guy Debord, Hamburg Theses, Henri Lefebvre, J.-F. Lyotard, Jean Baudrillard, Karl Marx, Ken Knabb, Lettrist International, McKenzie Wark, NOT BORED!, Raoul Vaneigem, récupération, review, Richard Gombin, situationist, Situationist International, situationist international online, situationists, society of the spectacle, The Beach beneath the Street, The Revolution of Everyday Life, The Society of the Spectacle, Wark | 3 Comments

Tag Archives: society of the spectacle

Spectacle of what?

The independence of the commodity (2)

A Palinode for the Bureau

Smashing the fash with ideas

The New Adventures of the Dialectic – STARTING TODAY!

Three Situationists walk into a bar…

Review of McKenzie Wark’s The Beach beneath the Street

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