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Tag Archives: society of the spectacle
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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Review of McKenzie Wark’s The Beach beneath the Street
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
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RAOUL VANEIGEM: Self-Portraits and Caricatures of the Situationist International
New from NOT BORED!, a translation-détournement of Rien n’est fini, tout commence, by Gérard Berréby and Raoul Vaneigem. From the translator’s preface: To date, though there have been dozens of detailed histories written about the development of the Situationist International (the “SI”), … Continue reading
Posted in Critique, Not Bored!, Situationist International, Translation
Tagged Asger Jorn, Attila Kotànyi, Clairette Schock, critique, détournement, Fabienne Lesage, Gérard Berréby, Guy Debord, Henri Lefebvre, internationale situationniste, Jacques Le Glou, Michèle Bernstein, Mustapha Khayati, NOT BORED!, Pierre Lotrous, Raoul Vaneigem, René Viénet, Rien n’est fini tout commence, Sébastien Coffy, situationism, situationist, Situationist International, society of the spectacle, spectacle, Thèrése Dubrule, translation, Yves Raynaud
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Never Work – Cardiff University Conference – Friday 10 July 2015 – Call for Papers
from MARBLEPUNK “A corpse rules society – the corpse of labour.” – Manifesto Against Labour, Krisis-Group Since the 1970s modern societies have been increasingly faced with social issues caused by a reliance on a form of life that technological development … Continue reading
Posted in Critique, Situationist International
Tagged 10 July 2015, against labour, Alastair Hemmens, alienation, Anselm Jappe, anti-politics, Cardiff University, commodity, communism, conference, crisis, critique, détournement, Gruppe Krisis, Guy Debord, Karl Marx, labour, MARBLEPUNK, ne travaillez jamais, never work, Norbert Trenkle, praxis, revolution, Situationist International, society of the spectacle
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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 →