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Tag Archives: society of the spectacle
Translator’s afterword to ‘On the role of the SI’
Translator’s afterword to ‘On the role of the SI’ A translation of ‘On the role of the SI’ is available here. If there is an article in which the Hamburg Theses of 1961 appear clearest, the conclusions of the Theses … Continue reading
Posted in I.S. no. 7, Situationist International, Translation notes
Tagged Alexander Trocchi, alienation, André Frankin, Arguments, Attila Kotànyi, Constant Nieuwenhuis, critique, détournement, Ernest Eugène Appert, Felix Guattari, General Claude Lecomte, Generals Jacques Leon Clément-Thomas, Gilles Deleuze, Gruppe Spur, Guy Debord, Hamburg Theses, Henri Lefebvre, Herbert Marcuse, ideology, internationale situationniste, inverted utopia, J.-F. Lyotard, Jean Baudrillard, Lucien Goldmann, nucelar fallout shelter, positive pole of alienation, Raoul Vaneigem, Reuben Keehan, Sarcelles, situationist, Situationist International, society of the spectacle, Thèses de Hambourg, The role of the SI, The Society of the Spectacle, utopia
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On the role of the SI—Internationale Situationniste number 7
On the role of the SI (from Internationale Situationniste no. 7, April 1962) We are totally popular. We only consider problems that are already latent in the population. Situationist theory is in people like fish are in water. To those … Continue reading
Posted in Critique, I.S. no. 7, Situationist International, Translation
Tagged Alexander Trocchi, alienation, Arguments, Attila Kotànyi, critique, détournement, Ernest Eugène Appert, General Claude Lecomte, Generals Jacques Leon Clément-Thomas, Guy Debord, Hamburg Theses, hidden, ideology, internationale situationniste, inverted utopia, L'internationale situationniste, nucelar fallout shelter, Paris Commune 1871, positive pole of alienation, Potlatch, Raoul Vaneigem, Sarcelles, situationist, Situationist International, society of the spectacle, Thèses de Hambourg, The role of the SI, Tony Armstrong-Jones, total communication, utopia
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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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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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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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Three Situationists walk into a bar…
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
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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 →