Tag Archives: The Society of the Spectacle

Translator’s afterword to ‘On the role of the SI’

Posted on June 16, 2022 by antyphayes

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 | 3 Comments

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

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

Review of Ken Knabb’s Spectacle

Posted on January 13, 2015 by antyphayes

UPDATE, 10 October, 2018. I have since repudiated some of the criticisms I leveled at Ken Knabb in the following review. See on this blog A Palinode for the Bureau for more details. — Eric-John Russell has reviewed Ken Knabb’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Critique | Tagged 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 | 9 Comments

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

Tag Archives: The Society of the Spectacle

Translator’s afterword to ‘On the role of the SI’

A Palinode for the Bureau

Review of McKenzie Wark’s The Beach beneath the Street

Review of Ken Knabb’s Spectacle

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