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Within the text, all annotations in square brackets are mine and my omissions are indicated by […]. I have not generally annotated references to historical events, etc. After the usual diet of ideological pabulum it may be a momentary shock to be forced to think; but those who are really confronting their lives and therefore this society will soon understand how to use these texts. Situationist language is difficult only to the extent that our situation is. Reblogged this on Kenny Wilson's Blog. Like Like. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Publication date Usage Public Domain Mark 1. Critical Theory. In a few experimental European groups stemming from the radical tradition of dadaism and surrealism, but seeking to avoid the cooption to which those movements succumbed, came together to form the Situationist International. The name came from their aim of liberating everyday life through the creation of open-ended, participatory "situations" as opposed to fixed works of art — an aim which naturally ran up against the whole range of material and mental obstacles produced by the present social order. The situationists challenged people's passive conditioning with carefully calculated scandals and the playful tactic of detournement. Seeking a more extreme social revolution than was dreamed of by most leftists, they developed an incisive critique of the global spectacle-commodity system and of its "Communist" and bureaucratic leftist pseudo-opposition, and their new methods of agitation helped trigger the May revolt in France. Since then — although the SI itself was dissolved in — situationist theories and tactics have continued to inspire radical currents all over the world. For this new edition the translations have all been fine-tuned and over pages of new material have been added. TEXTS 1. Formulary for a New Urbanism Ivan Chtcheglov 2. Wolman 5. The Alba Platform by Lettrist International 6. The Sound and the Fury 9. Preliminary Problems in Constructing a Situation Definitions Theses on Cultural Revolution by Guy Debord The Situationists and Automation by Asger Jorn Situationist Theses on Traffic by Guy Debord The Use of Free Time The Adventure Instructions for an Insurrection Geopolitics of Hibernation The Bad Days Will End Basic Banalities Part 1 by Raoul Vaneigem 8 The breakaway group felt that his work was no longer relevant, while having appreciated it "in its own time," and asserted their belief "that the most urgent expression of freedom is the destruction of idols, especially when they claim to represent freedom," in this case, filmmaker Charlie Chaplin. During this period of the Letterist International , many of the important concepts and ideas that would later be integral in situationist theory were developed. Individuals in the group collaboratively constructed the new field of psychogeography , which they defined as "the study of the specific effects of the geographical environment whether consciously organized or not on the emotions and behavior of individuals. The most prominent member of the group, Guy Debord , generally became considered the organization's de facto leader and most distinguished theorist. Debord and Bernstein later married. This manifesto plans a systematic [ citation needed ] rereading of Karl Marx 's Das Kapital and advocates a cultural revolution in western countries. During the first few years of the SI's founding, avant-garde artistic groups began collaborating with the SI and joining the organization. Gruppe SPUR , a German artistic collective, collaborated with the Situationist International on projects beginning in , continuing until the group officially joined the SI in Asger Jorn, who invented Situgraphy and Situlogy , had the social role of catalyst and team leader among the members of the SI between and Guy Debord on his own lacked the personal warmth and persuasiveness to draw people of different nationalities and talents into an active working partnership. As a prototype Marxist intellectual Debord needed an ally who could patch up the petty egoisms and squabbles of the members. When Jorn's leadership was withdrawn in , many simmering quarrels among different sections of the SI flared up, leading to multiple exclusions. The exclusion was a recognition that Gruppe SPUR 's "principles, methods and goals" were significantly in contrast with those of the SI. A few months after the exclusion, in the context of judicial prosecution against the group by the German state, Debord expressed his esteem to Gruppe SPUR, calling it the only significant artist group in Germany since World War II , and regarding it at the level of the avant-gardes in other countries. This excluded group would later declare themselves the 2nd Situationist International , basing their organization out of Sweden. These members possessed much more of a tendency towards political theory over the more artistic aspects of the SI. During this period the SI began having more and more influence on local university students in France. Taking advantage of the apathy of their colleagues, five "Pro-situs", situationist-influenced students, infiltrated the University of Strasbourg 's student union in November and began scandalising the authorities. This provoked an immediate outcry in the local, national and international media. The Situationists played a preponderant role in the May uprisings, [37] and to some extent their political perspective and ideas fueled such crisis, [37] [38] [39] providing a central theoretic foundation. This has now been widely acknowledged as a fact by studies of the period, [47] [48] [49] [50] [51] [52] what is still wide open to interpretation is the "how and why" that happened. They also made up the majority in the Occupation Committee of the Sorbonne. Quotations from two key situationist books, Debord's The Society of the Spectacle and Khayati's On the Poverty of Student Life , were written on the walls of Paris and several provincial cities. Those who followed the "artistic" view of the SI might view the evolution of the SI as producing a more boring or dogmatic organization. The "realization and suppression of art" is simply the most developed of the many dialectical supersessions which the SI sought over the years. For the Situationist International of , the world triumph of workers councils would bring about all these supersessions. Though the SI were a very small group, they were expert self-propagandists, and their slogans appeared daubed on walls throughout Paris at the time of the revolt. The occupations of started at the University of Nanterre and spread to the Sorbonne. The police tried to take back the Sorbonne and a riot ensued. Following this a general strike was declared with up to 10 million workers participating. The SI originally participated in the Sorbonne occupations and defended barricades in the riots. The SI distributed calls for the occupation of factories and the formation of workers' councils , [56] but, disillusioned with the students, left the university to set up The Council for the Maintenance of the Occupations CMDO which distributed the SI's demands on a much wider scale. After the end of the movement, the CMDO disbanded. The pamphlet argued that the ruling class of Italy supported the Piazza Fontana bombing and other covert, false flag mass slaughter for the higher goal of defending the capitalist status quo from communist influence. The pamphlet was mailed to of Italy's most powerful individuals. It was received as genuine and powerful politicians, industrialists and journalists praised its content. After reprinting the tract as a small book, Sanguinetti revealed himself to be the true author. In the outcry that ensued [58] and under pressure from Italian authorities Sanguinetti left Italy in February , and was denied entry to France. After publishing in the last issue of the magazine an analysis of the May revolts, and the strategies that will need to be adopted in future revolutions, [56] the SI was dissolved in The Spectacle is a central notion in situationist theory, developed by Guy Debord in his book, The Society of the Spectacle. In its limited sense, spectacle means the mass media, which are "its most glaring superficial manifestation. In the society of the spectacle, the commodities rule the workers and the consumers instead of being ruled by them. The consumers are passive subjects that contemplate the reified spectacle. As early as , in the situationist manifesto , Debord described official culture as a "rigged game", where conservative powers forbid subversive ideas to have direct access to the public discourse. Such ideas get first trivialized and sterilized, and then they are safely incorporated back within mainstream society, where they can be exploited to add new flavors to old dominant ideas. The Situationist International, in the 15 years from its formation in and its dissolution in , is characterized by a Marxist and surrealist perspective on aesthetics and politics, [69] without separation between the two: art and politics are faced together and in revolutionary terms. A major stance of the SI was to count on the force of a revolutionary proletariat. This stance was reaffirmed very clearly in a discussion on "To what extent is the SI a political movement? The SI rejected all art that separated itself from politics, the concept of 20th-century art that is separated from topical political events. According to this theory, artists and intellectuals that accept such compromises are rewarded by the art dealers and praised by the dominant culture. The majority of SI continued to refuse such offers and any involvement on the conventional avant-garde artistic plane. The SI noted how reactionary forces forbid subversive ideas from artists and intellectuals to reach the public discourse , and how they attack the artworks that express comprehensive critique of society, by saying that art should not involve itself into politics. The first edition of Internationale Situationniste defines the constructed situation as "a moment of life concretely and deliberately constructed by the collective organization of a unitary ambiance and a game of events. As the SI embraced dialectical Marxism, the situation came to refer less to a specific avant-garde practice than to the dialectical unification of art and life more generally. Beyond this theoretical definition, the situation as a practical manifestation thus slipped between a series of proposals. The SI thus were first led to distinguish the situation from the mere artistic practice of the happening , and later identified it in historical events such as the Paris Commune in which it exhibited itself as the revolutionary moment. The first edition of Internationale Situationniste defined psychogeography as "the study of the specific effects of the geographical environment whether consciously organized or not on the emotions and behavior of individuals. The word psychogeography, suggested by an illiterate Kabyle as a general term for the phenomena a few of us were investigating around the summer of , is not too inappropriate. It does not contradict the materialist perspective of the conditioning of life and thought by objective nature. Geography, for example, deals with the determinant action of general natural forces, such as soil composition or climatic conditions, on the economic structures of a society, and thus on the corresponding conception that such a society can have of the world. Psychogeography could set for itself the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, whether consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals. The charmingly vague adjective psychogeographical can be applied to the findings arrived at by this type of investigation, to their influence on human feelings, and more generally to any situation or conduct that seems to reflect the same spirit of discovery. By definition, psychogeography combines subjective and objective knowledge and studies. The first in , was an excursion to the Church of Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre with the Parisian Dadaists ; [76] the second excursion was on 1 May , when a small group of Surrealists walked toward the countryside outside of Blois. He emphasized its active character as "a mode of experimental behavior" that reached to Romanticism , the Baroque, and the age of chivalry, with its tradition of long adventures voyages. Such urban roaming was characteristic of Left Bank bohemianism in Paris. In the SI's 6th issue, Raoul Vaneigem writes in a manifesto of unitary urbanism, "All space is occupied by the enemy. We are living under a permanent curfew. Not just the cops—the geometry". The situationists observed that the worker of advanced capitalism still only functions with the goal of survival. In a world where technological efficiency has increased production exponentially, by tenfold, the workers of society still dedicate the whole of their lives to survival, by way of production. The purpose for which advanced capitalism is organized isn't luxury, happiness, or freedom, but production. The production of commodities is an end to itself; and production by way of survival. The theorists of the Situationist International regarded the current paradigm of work in advanced capitalist society as increasingly absurd. As technology progresses, and work becomes exponentially efficient, the work itself becomes exponentially more trivial. The spectacle's social function is the concrete manufacture of alienation. Economic expansion consists primarily of the expansion of this particular sector of industrial production. The "growth" generated by an economy developing for its own sake can be nothing other than a growth of the very alienation that was at its origin. The first English-language collection of SI writings, although poorly and freely translated, was Leaving The 20th century edited by Christopher Gray. The Situationist International Anthology edited and translated by Ken Knabb , collected numerous SI documents which had previously never been seen in English. Rooted firmly in the Marxist tradition, the Situationist International criticized Trotskyism , Marxism—Leninism , Stalinism and Maoism from a position they believed to be further left and more properly Marxist. The situationists possessed a strong anti-authoritarian current, commonly deriding the centralized bureaucracies of China and the Soviet Union in the same breath as capitalism. Debord's work The Society of the Spectacle established situationist analysis as Marxist critical theory. The concept of revolution created by the Situationist International was anti-capitalist , [83] [84] [85] Marxist , Young Hegelian , [37] and from the very beginning in the 50s, remarkably differently from the established Left, anti- Stalinist and against all repressive regimes. Debord starts his work with a revisited version of the first sentence with which Marx began his critique of classical political economy, Das Kapital. Drawing from Marx, which argued that under a capitalist society the wealth is degraded to an immense accumulation of commodities , Debord argues that in advanced capitalism , life is reduced to an immense accumulation of spectacles, a triumph of mere appearance where "all that once was directly lived has become mere representation". Elaborating on Marx's argument that under capitalism our lives and our environment are continually depleted, Debord adds that the Spectacle is the system by which capitalism tries to hide such depletion. Debord added that, further than the impoverishment in the quality of life , [22] [72] our psychic functions are altered, we get a degradation of mind and also a degradation of knowledge. Situationist theorists advocated methods of operation that included democratic workers' councils and workers' self-management , [95] [96] [97] [98] interested in empowering the individual, in contrast to the perceived corrupt bureaucratic states of the Eastern bloc. Their anti-authoritarian interpretation of Marxist theory can be identified with the broader council communist and libertarian Marxist movements, themselves more broadly termed as left communism. The last issue of the Situationist International journal, featured an editorial analyzing the events of May According to Greil Marcus , some found similarities between the Situationists and the Yippies. Former situationists Clark and Nicholson-Smith British section , argued that the portion of the moderate Left that is the "established Left", and its "Left opinion-makers", usually addressed contemptuously the SI as "hopelessly young-Hegelian ". The Situationist International was differentiated from both anarchists and Marxists. In spite of this, they have frequently been associated with anarchism. The only people who will be excluded from this debate are The situationists are obviously partisans of organization—the existence of the situationist organization testifies to that. Situationist International - Wikipedia

Very inspiring, good collection, fun to see the evolution of the group. Feb 17, Joe Donohue rated it liked it Shelves: anarchy , critical-theory. The best part is the end where the journalists attempt to explain what was happening in France during the May events. The Americans were unmatched in their ignorance. They thought that the riots were caused by situational ethics -- as if a psychological topic could cause riots. The American press was writing confidently about matters that were beyond them. It just goes to show you: the more you know a topic, the less you will like the press coverage of it. Apr 28, Rheuben Bundy rated it it was amazing. While i didn't like knabbs introduction to the text, in that he used it as a platform to discuss why other translations were terrible, rather that discussing the what and why of the group itself, it is still one of the best looks at the group i have ever seen. Jan 01, Tedopon rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: you. Shelves: social. I was reading this during Interesting that it's a scathing critique of consumer society. Good, complex and long collection of treatises and seminars and international meetings of the group from the mid to late 20th century. Sep 24, Tosh rated it it was amazing Shelves: books-bought. This is the one to get for those who want to step into the world of the Situationists. I took this book with me to Japan as well. I sort of kept it as 'my' bible of sorts. A fascinating document of a certain time that is still with us. May 20, Boozebabyexperience rated it it was amazing. Oct 20, Amir Merksamer rated it liked it. Jul 21, Nate D marked it as limbo Shelves: france , situationist. Michael rated it it was amazing Jan 12, Rizle Kate rated it really liked it Oct 03, Kelly rated it liked it Oct 15, Philip Matusavage rated it it was amazing Mar 03, Razor rated it really liked it Jan 19, Jason Mellard rated it it was amazing May 14, Zeke Jakub rated it it was amazing Jul 29, Donald McDonald rated it it was amazing Feb 23, Jesse rated it liked it Feb 24, Imge rated it really liked it Sep 17, Ahmed Yassien rated it it was amazing Mar 03, Peter Morgan rated it it was amazing Dec 20, Britt rated it really liked it Sep 04, Kevin Fitzpatrick rated it it was amazing Feb 01, Erik Paul Liimatta rated it it was amazing Dec 24, Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Publication date Usage Public Domain Mark 1. Critical Theory. In a few experimental European groups stemming from the radical tradition of dadaism and surrealism, but seeking to avoid the cooption to which those movements succumbed, came together to form the Situationist International. The name came from their aim of liberating everyday life through the creation of open-ended, participatory "situations" as opposed to fixed works of art — an aim which naturally ran up against the whole range of material and mental obstacles produced by the present social order. The situationists challenged people's passive conditioning with carefully calculated scandals and the playful tactic of detournement. Seeking a more extreme social revolution than was dreamed of by most leftists, they developed an incisive critique of the global spectacle-commodity system and of its "Communist" and bureaucratic leftist pseudo-opposition, and their new methods of agitation helped trigger the May revolt in France. Since then — although the SI itself was dissolved in — situationist theories and tactics have continued to inspire radical currents all over the world. For this new edition the translations have all been fine-tuned and over pages of new material have been added. TEXTS 1. Formulary for a New Urbanism Ivan Chtcheglov 2. Wolman 5. The Alba Platform by Lettrist International 6. The Sound and the Fury 9. Preliminary Problems in Constructing a Situation Definitions Theses on Cultural Revolution by Guy Debord The Situationists and Automation by Asger Jorn Situationist Theses on Traffic by Guy Debord The Use of Free Time The Adventure Instructions for an Insurrection Geopolitics of Hibernation The Bad Days Will End Home About Contact. Like this: Like Loading Bookmark the permalink. October 6, at am. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Email required Address never made public. Name required. Search for:. Newton Hunter S. McNamara Religion Rob. Blog at WordPress. Situationist International Anthology: Revised and Expanded Edition by Ken Knabb

Over the next decade the SI developed an increasingly incisive and coherent critique of modern society and of its bureaucratic pseudo-opposition, and its new methods of agitation were influential in leading up to the May revolt in France. Since then — although the SI itself was dissolved in — situationist theses and tactics have been taken up by radical currents in dozens of countries all over the world. Thus some early texts are included even though they express positions that were later repudiated by the situationists. But even the later texts reveal mistakes, contradictions, projects that never materialized, problems that remain to be solved. In other publications I have presented my own views on a few of these issues; but here I have as far as possible let the SI speak for itself. The major portion of the anthology is drawn from the French journal Internationale Situationniste it includes about a third of the IS articles. The rest consists of various shorter publications and documents. Anyone who is serious will want to read these books in their entirety. Within the text, all annotations in square brackets are mine and my omissions are indicated by […]. I have not generally annotated references to historical events, etc. After the usual diet of ideological pabulum it may be a momentary shock to be forced to think; but those who are really confronting their lives and therefore this society will soon understand how to use these texts. Situationist language is difficult only to the extent that our situation is. Uploaded by whatwillittake on November 7, Search icon An illustration of a magnifying glass. User icon An illustration of a person's head and chest. Sign up Log in. Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book. Books Video icon An illustration of two cells of a film strip. Video Audio icon An illustration of an audio speaker. 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The situationists challenged people's passive conditioning with carefully calculated scandals and the playful tactic of detournement. Seeking a more extreme social revolution than was dreamed of by most leftists, they developed an incisive critique of the global spectacle-commodity system and of its "Communist" and bureaucratic leftist pseudo-opposition, and their new methods of agitation helped trigger the May revolt in France. Since then — although the SI itself was dissolved in — situationist theories and tactics have continued to inspire radical currents all over the world. For this new edition the translations have all been fine-tuned and over pages of new material have been added. TEXTS 1. Formulary for a New Urbanism Ivan Chtcheglov 2. Those who followed the "artistic" view of the SI might view the evolution of the SI as producing a more boring or dogmatic organization. The "realization and suppression of art" is simply the most developed of the many dialectical supersessions which the SI sought over the years. For the Situationist International of , the world triumph of workers councils would bring about all these supersessions. Though the SI were a very small group, they were expert self-propagandists, and their slogans appeared daubed on walls throughout Paris at the time of the revolt. The occupations of started at the University of Nanterre and spread to the Sorbonne. The police tried to take back the Sorbonne and a riot ensued. Following this a general strike was declared with up to 10 million workers participating. The SI originally participated in the Sorbonne occupations and defended barricades in the riots. The SI distributed calls for the occupation of factories and the formation of workers' councils , [56] but, disillusioned with the students, left the university to set up The Council for the Maintenance of the Occupations CMDO which distributed the SI's demands on a much wider scale. After the end of the movement, the CMDO disbanded. The pamphlet argued that the ruling class of Italy supported the Piazza Fontana bombing and other covert, false flag mass slaughter for the higher goal of defending the capitalist status quo from communist influence. The pamphlet was mailed to of Italy's most powerful individuals. It was received as genuine and powerful politicians, industrialists and journalists praised its content. After reprinting the tract as a small book, Sanguinetti revealed himself to be the true author. In the outcry that ensued [58] and under pressure from Italian authorities Sanguinetti left Italy in February , and was denied entry to France. After publishing in the last issue of the magazine an analysis of the May revolts, and the strategies that will need to be adopted in future revolutions, [56] the SI was dissolved in The Spectacle is a central notion in situationist theory, developed by Guy Debord in his book, The Society of the Spectacle. In its limited sense, spectacle means the mass media, which are "its most glaring superficial manifestation. In the society of the spectacle, the commodities rule the workers and the consumers instead of being ruled by them. The consumers are passive subjects that contemplate the reified spectacle. As early as , in the situationist manifesto , Debord described official culture as a "rigged game", where conservative powers forbid subversive ideas to have direct access to the public discourse. Such ideas get first trivialized and sterilized, and then they are safely incorporated back within mainstream society, where they can be exploited to add new flavors to old dominant ideas. The Situationist International, in the 15 years from its formation in and its dissolution in , is characterized by a Marxist and surrealist perspective on aesthetics and politics, [69] without separation between the two: art and politics are faced together and in revolutionary terms. A major stance of the SI was to count on the force of a revolutionary proletariat. This stance was reaffirmed very clearly in a discussion on "To what extent is the SI a political movement? The SI rejected all art that separated itself from politics, the concept of 20th-century art that is separated from topical political events. According to this theory, artists and intellectuals that accept such compromises are rewarded by the art dealers and praised by the dominant culture. The majority of SI continued to refuse such offers and any involvement on the conventional avant-garde artistic plane. The SI noted how reactionary forces forbid subversive ideas from artists and intellectuals to reach the public discourse , and how they attack the artworks that express comprehensive critique of society, by saying that art should not involve itself into politics. The first edition of Internationale Situationniste defines the constructed situation as "a moment of life concretely and deliberately constructed by the collective organization of a unitary ambiance and a game of events. As the SI embraced dialectical Marxism, the situation came to refer less to a specific avant-garde practice than to the dialectical unification of art and life more generally. Beyond this theoretical definition, the situation as a practical manifestation thus slipped between a series of proposals. The SI thus were first led to distinguish the situation from the mere artistic practice of the happening , and later identified it in historical events such as the Paris Commune in which it exhibited itself as the revolutionary moment. The first edition of Internationale Situationniste defined psychogeography as "the study of the specific effects of the geographical environment whether consciously organized or not on the emotions and behavior of individuals. The word psychogeography, suggested by an illiterate Kabyle as a general term for the phenomena a few of us were investigating around the summer of , is not too inappropriate. It does not contradict the materialist perspective of the conditioning of life and thought by objective nature. Geography, for example, deals with the determinant action of general natural forces, such as soil composition or climatic conditions, on the economic structures of a society, and thus on the corresponding conception that such a society can have of the world. Psychogeography could set for itself the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, whether consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals. The charmingly vague adjective psychogeographical can be applied to the findings arrived at by this type of investigation, to their influence on human feelings, and more generally to any situation or conduct that seems to reflect the same spirit of discovery. By definition, psychogeography combines subjective and objective knowledge and studies. The first in , was an excursion to the Church of Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre with the Parisian Dadaists ; [76] the second excursion was on 1 May , when a small group of Surrealists walked toward the countryside outside of Blois. He emphasized its active character as "a mode of experimental behavior" that reached to Romanticism , the Baroque, and the age of chivalry, with its tradition of long adventures voyages. Such urban roaming was characteristic of Left Bank bohemianism in Paris. In the SI's 6th issue, Raoul Vaneigem writes in a manifesto of unitary urbanism, "All space is occupied by the enemy. We are living under a permanent curfew. Not just the cops—the geometry". The situationists observed that the worker of advanced capitalism still only functions with the goal of survival. In a world where technological efficiency has increased production exponentially, by tenfold, the workers of society still dedicate the whole of their lives to survival, by way of production. The purpose for which advanced capitalism is organized isn't luxury, happiness, or freedom, but production. The production of commodities is an end to itself; and production by way of survival. The theorists of the Situationist International regarded the current paradigm of work in advanced capitalist society as increasingly absurd. As technology progresses, and work becomes exponentially efficient, the work itself becomes exponentially more trivial. The spectacle's social function is the concrete manufacture of alienation. Economic expansion consists primarily of the expansion of this particular sector of industrial production. The "growth" generated by an economy developing for its own sake can be nothing other than a growth of the very alienation that was at its origin. The first English-language collection of SI writings, although poorly and freely translated, was Leaving The 20th century edited by Christopher Gray. The Situationist International Anthology edited and translated by Ken Knabb , collected numerous SI documents which had previously never been seen in English. Rooted firmly in the Marxist tradition, the Situationist International criticized Trotskyism , Marxism—Leninism , Stalinism and Maoism from a position they believed to be further left and more properly Marxist. The situationists possessed a strong anti-authoritarian current, commonly deriding the centralized bureaucracies of China and the Soviet Union in the same breath as capitalism. Debord's work The Society of the Spectacle established situationist analysis as Marxist critical theory. The concept of revolution created by the Situationist International was anti-capitalist , [83] [84] [85] Marxist , Young Hegelian , [37] and from the very beginning in the 50s, remarkably differently from the established Left, anti-Stalinist and against all repressive regimes. Debord starts his work with a revisited version of the first sentence with which Marx began his critique of classical political economy, Das Kapital. Drawing from Marx, which argued that under a capitalist society the wealth is degraded to an immense accumulation of commodities , Debord argues that in advanced capitalism , life is reduced to an immense accumulation of spectacles, a triumph of mere appearance where "all that once was directly lived has become mere representation". Elaborating on Marx's argument that under capitalism our lives and our environment are continually depleted, Debord adds that the Spectacle is the system by which capitalism tries to hide such depletion. Debord added that, further than the impoverishment in the quality of life , [22] [72] our psychic functions are altered, we get a degradation of mind and also a degradation of knowledge. Situationist theorists advocated methods of operation that included democratic workers' councils and workers' self-management , [95] [96] [97] [98] interested in empowering the individual, in contrast to the perceived corrupt bureaucratic states of the Eastern bloc. Their anti-authoritarian interpretation of Marxist theory can be identified with the broader council communist and libertarian Marxist movements, themselves more broadly termed as left communism. The last issue of the Situationist International journal, featured an editorial analyzing the events of May According to Greil Marcus , some found similarities between the Situationists and the Yippies. Former situationists Clark and Nicholson-Smith British section , argued that the portion of the moderate Left that is the "established Left", and its "Left opinion-makers", usually addressed contemptuously the SI as "hopelessly young-Hegelian ". The Situationist International was differentiated from both anarchists and Marxists. In spite of this, they have frequently been associated with anarchism. The only people who will be excluded from this debate are The situationists are obviously partisans of organization—the existence of the situationist organization testifies to that. Those who announce their agreement with our theses while crediting the SI with a vague spontaneism simply don't know how to read. According to situationist Ken Knabb , Debord pointed out the flaws and merits of both Marxism and anarchism. The anarchists rightly criticized the authoritarian and narrowly economistic tendencies in Marxism, but they generally did so in an undialectical, moralistic, ahistorical manner The SI poses a challenge to the model of political action of a portion of the left, [] the "established Left" and "Left opinion-makers". The second challenging aspect, [39] is the comparison between the Situationist Marxist theory of the Society of the Spectacle , which is still very topical 30 years later, [47] [74] and the current status of the theories supported by leftist establishments in the same period, like Althusserianism , Maoism , workerism , Freudo-Marxism and others. The response to this challenge has been an attempt to silence and misinterpret, to "turn the SI safely into an art movement , and thereby to minimize its role in the political and social movements of the sixties". The core aspect of the revolutionary perspectives, and the political theory, of the Situationist International, has been neglected by some commentators, [] which either limited themselves to an apolitical reading of the situationist avant-garde art works, or dismissed the Situationist political theory. The concept of revolution created by the Situationist International was anti-capitalist , [83] [84] [85] Marxist , Young Hegelian , [37] and from the very beginning in the s, remarkably differently from the established Left, anti-Stalinist and against all repressive regimes. There was no separation between the artistic and the political perspectives. He was at the root and at the core of the Situationist International project, fully sharing the revolutionary intentions with Debord. Critics of the Situationists frequently assert that their ideas are not in fact complex and difficult to understand, but are at best simple ideas expressed in deliberately difficult language, and at worst actually nonsensical. For example, anarchist Chaz Bufe asserts in Listen Anarchist! She remarks how little the suppression of Algerians in Paris had on their activity and thinking — Bernstein and Debord co-signed the Declaration on the Right to Insubordination in the Algerian War in , which led to them being questioned by the police. She cites a letter written by Jacqueline de Jong, Jorgen Nash, and Ansgar Elde protesting the expulsion of the Spur group in which highlights the political repression in Paris at that time. Gibbons also criticises the lack of mention of the Algerian situationists in either Debord's or Vaneigem's memoirs. Debord's analysis of the spectacle has been influential among people working on television, particularly in France and Italy; [] [] in Italy, TV programs produced by situationist intellectuals, like Antonio Ricci's Striscia la notizia , or Carlo Freccero's programming schedule for Italia 1 in the early s. In the s and s, anarchists, communists, and other leftists offered various interpretations of Situationist concepts in combination with a variety of other perspectives. During the early s, English anarchist Larry Law produced the Spectacular Times pocket-books series, which aimed to make Situationist ideas more easily assimilated into the anarchist movement. Later anarchist theorists such as the CrimethInc. Situationist urban theory, defined initially by the members of the Lettrist International as "Unitary Urbanism," was extensively developed through the behavioural and performance structures of The Workshop for Non-Linear Architecture during the s. The re-emergence of the London Psychogeographical Association also inspired many new psychogeographical groups including Manchester Area Psychogeographic. Around this time also, groups such as Reclaim the Streets and Adbusters have, respectively, seen themselves as "creating situations" or practicing detournement on advertisements. In cultural terms, the SI's influence has arguably been greater, if more diffuse.

Bureau of Public Secrets - situationist texts and translations

User icon An illustration of a person's head and chest. Sign up Log in. Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book. Books Video icon An illustration of two cells of a film strip. Video Audio icon An illustration of an audio speaker. Audio Software icon An illustration of a 3. Software Images icon An illustration of two photographs. Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses. Situationist International Anthology Item Preview. EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Publication date Usage Public Domain Mark 1. Critical Theory. In a few experimental European groups stemming from the radical tradition of dadaism and surrealism, but seeking to avoid the cooption to which those movements succumbed, came together to form the Situationist International. The name came from their aim of liberating everyday life through the creation of open-ended, participatory "situations" as opposed to fixed works of art — an aim which naturally ran up against the whole range of material and mental obstacles produced by the present social order. The situationists challenged people's passive conditioning with carefully calculated scandals and the playful tactic of detournement. Seeking a more extreme social revolution than was dreamed of by most leftists, they developed an incisive critique of the global spectacle-commodity system and of its "Communist" and bureaucratic leftist pseudo-opposition, and their new methods of agitation helped trigger the May revolt in France. Since then — although the SI itself was dissolved in — situationist theories and tactics have continued to inspire radical currents all over the world. For this new edition the translations have all been fine-tuned and over pages of new material have been added. TEXTS 1. Formulary for a New Urbanism Ivan Chtcheglov 2. Wolman 5. The Alba Platform by Lettrist International 6. The Sound and the Fury 9. Preliminary Problems in Constructing a Situation Definitions Theses on Cultural Revolution by Guy Debord The Situationists and Automation by Asger Jorn Situationist Theses on Traffic by Guy Debord The Use of Free Time The Adventure Instructions for an Insurrection Geopolitics of Hibernation The Bad Days Will End Basic Banalities Part 1 by Raoul Vaneigem 8 Ideologies, Classes, and the Domination of Nature Nov 21, A. Jameson rated it it was amazing. I return to this endlessly, and the subtlety of the thought it contains never ceases to amaze. Not to mention, there's so much practical advice! The Situationists occupy a key place in 20th century politics - not because they were all the big or all that successful in their political actions, but because they sit in a nexus that links art, culture and political activism, link to punk, surrealism and anarchism, and have become romanticised as a vital force in the excessively romanticised events in Paris in May Their political critiques of consumer life, of urban realities and power, and their notion of the the 'situation' as a polit The Situationists occupy a key place in 20th century politics - not because they were all the big or all that successful in their political actions, but because they sit in a nexus that links art, culture and political activism, link to punk, surrealism and anarchism, and have become romanticised as a vital force in the excessively romanticised events in Paris in May Their political critiques of consumer life, of urban realities and power, and their notion of the the 'situation' as a political action remain powerful and woven through much of the politics of the era since. This is an important and valuable as well as fairly comprehensive collection of much of their work with the exception of their separately published books - Society of the Spectacle and so forth. Some of this is great, some however has lost its power in the passage of time to remain little more than a useful archive of the era. Mar 10, Gregory Sotir rated it it was amazing. I love this book. Whenever I become uninspired, all I have to do is pick it up and start reading. A great mix of arrogant self-philosophizing and creative energy. Detournement changed my whole way of looking at creative acts. This is by far the most complete collection of Situationist writings in English. Chronologically arranged, this provides a fantastic, near-comprehensive portrait of the organization and their effects on the world. Mar 03, Stereo rated it it was amazing. Worth picking up if into SI. Very inspiring, good collection, fun to see the evolution of the group. Feb 17, Joe Donohue rated it liked it Shelves: anarchy , critical-theory. The best part is the end where the journalists attempt to explain what was happening in France during the May events. The Americans were unmatched in their ignorance. They thought that the riots were caused by situational ethics -- as if a psychological topic could cause riots. The American press was writing confidently about matters that were beyond them. It just goes to show you: the more you know a topic, the less you will like the press coverage of it. Apr 28, Rheuben Bundy rated it it was amazing. While i didn't like knabbs introduction to the text, in that he used it as a platform to discuss why other translations were terrible, rather that discussing the what and why of the group itself, it is still one of the best looks at the group i have ever seen. Jan 01, Tedopon rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: you. Shelves: social. I was reading this during Interesting that it's a scathing critique of consumer society. Good, complex and long collection of treatises and seminars and international meetings of the group from the mid to late 20th century. Sep 24, Tosh rated it it was amazing Shelves: books-bought. This is the one to get for those who want to step into the world of the Situationists. I took this book with me to Japan as well. I sort of kept it as 'my' bible of sorts. A fascinating document of a certain time that is still with us. May 20, Boozebabyexperience rated it it was amazing. Oct 20, Amir Merksamer rated it liked it. Jul 21, Nate D marked it as limbo Shelves: france , situationist. 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