Tag Archives: spectacle

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

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

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

RAOUL VANEIGEM: Self-Portraits and Caricatures of the Situationist International

Posted on January 19, 2015 by antyphayes

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 | Leave a comment

Asphyxiation

Posted on December 18, 2014 by antyphayes

New article by NOT BORED! Asphyxiation “Some people die of asphyxiation right away – like Eric Garner. It didn’t take but a minute for that cop to choke him to death. “Other people die of asphyxiation slowly – actually, the whole … Continue reading →

Posted in Critique, Not Bored! | Tagged alienation, anxiety, brutalisation, critique, Eric Garner, Ferguson, Hands up don't shoot, killer cops, loneliness, Michael Brown, murderous cops, NOT BORED!, objectification, police brutality, sadism, spectacle, submission, suffocation | Leave a comment

How to misunderstand Situationists & other Social-Barbarians

Posted on November 13, 2014 by antyphayes

A new article by me criticizing Bernard Quiriny’s questionable attempt to make Cornelius Castoriadis the inspiration or even source of the Situationist theory of ‘the society of the spectacle’. PDF available here. Comments are welcome.

Posted in Critique, Situationist International, Socialism or Barbarism | Tagged André Frankin, Andre Girard, appearances of simulacra, Archives et documents situationnistes, Attila Kotànyi, Édouard Taubé, Bernard Quiriny, Christophe Bourseiller, Constant Nieuwenhuis, Cornelius Castoriadis, critique, Critique de la separation, Daniel Blanchard, David Ames Curtis, Debord, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georges Bataille, Guy Debord, Hiroshima mon amour, i.s. 1958-1969, in the Resounding Cataract of Time, J.-F. Lyotard, Jean Baudrillard, Jean-Luc Godard, L'internationale situationniste, La Société du Spectacle, Le cinéma et la révolution, Le cinema après Alain Resnais, Le Mouvement révolutionnaire sous le capitalisme moderne, Loren Goldner, Marxisme et theorie révolutionnaire, mass media, Modern Capitalism and Revolution, NOT BORED!, P. Canjuers, Phillipe Gottraux, Pierre Guillaume, Pour un jugement révolutionnaire de l’art, Pouvoir Ouvrier, Pouvoir Ouvrier Belgique, Preliminaires pour une definition de l'unite du programme revolutionnaire, Raoul Vaneigem, Rapport sur la construction des situations…, Recommencer la revolution, Robert Dehoux, Roland Barthes, Situationist International, social barbarians, Socialisme ou Barbarie, Socialisme ou Barbarie et l’Internationale situationniste : notes sur une « méprise », society of the spectacle, spectacle, Stephen Hastings-King, Sur le passage de quelques personnes à travers une assez courte unité de temps, T. J. Clark, The Society of the Spectacle, Vie et mort de Guy Debord 1931-1994, yellow zone | 4 Comments

Toward the realisation of philosophy

Posted on January 6, 2014 by antyphayes

Recently I presented a paper at a graduate history conference at the University of Sydney. The paper is called Toward the realisation of philosophy: The Situationist International between 1957 and 1960. It is brief and has a rather abrupt end. … Continue reading →

Posted in Critique, Research Notes, Situationist International | Tagged 5th Conference, alienation, André Breton, Asger Jorn, Attila Kotànyi, CoBrA, Constant Nieuwenhuis, constructed situation, critique, Dada, Grouppe Spur, Guy Debord, Hamburg Theses, internationale situationniste, Karl Marx, L'internationale situationniste, pdf, Raoul Vaneigem, revolution, Situationist International, situationists, society of the spectacle, spectacle, Surrealism, unitary urbanism | 1 Comment

“Socialism or Planète”

Posted on October 31, 2013 by antyphayes

[from Internationale Situationniste, no. 10, March 1966] We put forward several apparently risky assertions with the assurance of subsequently seeing an historical display of their undeniable seriousness. The more limited our remarks — for example when we analyse a detail … Continue reading →

Posted in I.S. no. 10, Situationist International, Translation | Tagged advertising, apparatus, Arguments, Association pour la recherche des cultures, CFDT, CFTC, Claude Planson, Confédération Française Démocratique du Travail, Confédération Française des Travailleurs Chrétiens, constituted imaginary, Cornelius Castoriadis, Cornelius Castoriadis Political and Social Writings Volume 3, critique, Daniel Mothé, David Ames Curtis, Edgar Morin, False Consciousness: An Essay on Reification, First International, Freud, General Council, Godard, i.s. no. 10, ideology, International Workingmen’s Association, internationale situationniste, IWA, Jacques Rougerie, Jan Kott, Jean Duvignaud, Jean Vilar, Joseph Gabel, Karl Marx, Kathleen Blamey, Ken Knabb, Kostos Axelos, L'internationale situationniste, Louis Pauwels, MARBLEPUNK, Marxism, Marxism and Revolutionary Theory, Maurice Béjart, Militant chez Renault, nature, needs, NOT BORED!, Paul Cardan, Planète, Poland, Polish uprising of January 1863, Postface to “Recommencing the Revolution”, psychoanalysis, récupération, Recommencing the Revolution, revolution, sexual needs, situationism, situationist, Situationist International, Socialisme ou Barbarie, society of the spectacle, spectacle, The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, the imaginary, The Imaginary Institution of Society, Theatre of Nations, totality, translation, true needs, USSR, Wilhelm Reich, Yvon Bourdet | Leave a comment

The packaging of “free-time”

Posted on October 10, 2013 by antyphayes

[from Internationale Situationniste no. 10, March 1966] Through the art of advertising’s reuse of all the scraps of partial critical conclusions, our epoch will teach to those who are more accommodating that those who speak more or less [about] the … Continue reading →

Posted in I.S. no. 10, Situationist International, Translation | Tagged advertising, alienation, Baron Edmond de Rothschild, Charles Fourier, Club Méditerranée, Club Med, commodity, critique, détournement, freedom-commodity, holidays, i.s. no. 10, ideology, internationale situationniste, L'internationale situationniste, Le Nouvel Observateur, Montaigne, NOT BORED!, package holidays, Planète, psychodrama, récupération, situationist, Situationist International, society of the spectacle, spectacle, translation, vacations | 1 Comment

Plagiarism for all, not just boring poets!

Posted on October 3, 2013 by antyphayes

from the conclusion: “we begin to find a real alternative to the plagiarism of Nunn and Slattery, and indeed any plagiaristic activity which by merely aping the ideology of the bourgeois ‘atom’ reinforces a false account of all creative activity. … Continue reading →

Posted in Critique, Research Notes, Situationist International | Tagged alienation, Andrew Slattery, Angry Penguins, Antony Lawrence, Arguments, collage, commodity, Comte de Lautreamont, crass Cartesianism, critique, cultural studies, Dada, détournement, Ern Malley, Gil J. Wolman, Graham Nunn, Guy Debord, Henri Lefebvre, ideology, Ira Lightman, Isidore Ducasse, Justin Clemens, Karl Marx, Kenneth Goldsmith, L'internationale situationniste, labour-power, Les Chants de Maldoror, Les Lèvres Nues, M.T.C. Cronin, plagiarism, poetry, postmodernism, récupération, situationist, Situationist International, society of the spectacle, spectacle, surplus-value, Surrealism, theft, value | 19 Comments

Tag Archives: spectacle

The independence of the commodity (2)

Smashing the fash with ideas

Three Situationists walk into a bar…

RAOUL VANEIGEM: Self-Portraits and Caricatures of the Situationist International

Asphyxiation

Toward the realisation of philosophy

The packaging of “free-time”

Plagiarism for all, not just boring poets!

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