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Tag Archives: submission
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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Asphyxiation
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
Well said S.I.!
[from Internationale Situationniste no. 9, August 1964] “This dose of pretentious errors obliges us to make a re-examination of [Alain] Resnais… Despite the references he made to André Breton around the time of the release of Hiroshima [mon amour], Resnais … Continue reading
Posted in I.S. no. 9, Situationist International, Translation
Tagged Alain Resnais, Alain Robbe-Grillet, alienation, and the Domination of Nature, André Breton, appearance, Arguments, Cinema After Alain Resnais, Classes, coherence, commodity, Frédéric de Towarnicki, Harry Dickson, Hiroshima mon amour, I.S. no. 7, I.S. no. 9, ideological function, Ideologies, ideology, Jacques Sternberg, Je t'aime, Ken Knabb, L'Année dernière à Marienbad, L'Immortelle, L'internationale situationniste, Marguerite Duras, Michèle Bernstein, modernism, modernity, New Wave, NOT BORED!, Nouvelle Vague, Omni, One More Try if you Want to be Situationists, Planète, post modernism, récupération, science fiction, situationist, Situationist International, society of the spectacle, spectacle, submission, Sunset Boulevard, Wired
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Correspondence with a Cybernetician
[from Internationale Situationniste no. 9, August 1964] Abraham A. MOLES – judging by his letterhead: Doctor of Letters (Phil.), Doctor of Science (Phys.), engineer, assistant professor (University of Strasbourg), Professor of the E.O.S.T.[1] – has addressed, on the 16th of … Continue reading
Posted in I.S. no. 9, Situationist International, Translation
Tagged Abraham Moles, alien power, alienation, Arguments, Émile Durkheim, cybernetician, cybernetics, détournement, Graham Greene, Guy Debord, Henri Lefebvre, ideology, L'internationale situationniste, Lucien Goldmann, Michael Young, Nicole Beaurain, objectification, récupération, revolution, situation, situationism, situationist, Situationist International, submission, technology, Vance Packard
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A case of situationism
As other comrades have written the crux of our opposition to McKenzie Wark resolves along two lines. First he falsifies and distorts the history of the Situationist International (see this review of his 2011 book: No useless commentaries! or, McKenzie … Continue reading
Posted in Critique, Situationist International
Tagged advertising, alienation, commodity, Danish Society for Comparative Vandalism, détournement, Guy Debord, ideology, marketing tool, marketing tools, McKenzie Wark, NOT BORED!, objectification, revolution, situationist, Situationist International, society of the spectacle, spectacle, submission, verso books
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Let one thousand Wark’s bloom!
It was bound to happen, historically inevitable even: International Society for the Appreciation of Teacher Wark’s Amazing Techniques (ISATWAT) “3D dolls do not fall from the sky. Rather they are produced dialectically from the depths of a 3D copier and … Continue reading
The independence of the commodity
The autonomy of the commodity is at the root of the dictatorship of appearance; of the fundamental tautology of the spectacle, where importance is always presupposed and defined by the staging of importance. The prefabricated pseudo-event which dominates and orients … Continue reading
Posted in I.S. no. 10, Situationist International, Translation
Tagged advertising, alien power, alienation, appearance, commodity, ideology, independence, MARBLEPUNK, NOT BORED!, objectification, revolution, situationist, Situationist International, society of the spectacle, spectacle, submission, tautology, unconscious
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