L'Internationale Situationniste, Socialisme ou Barbarie, and the Crisis of the Marxist Imaginary Author(s): Stephen Hastings-King Source: SubStance, Vol. 28, No. 3, Issue 90: Special Issue: Guy Debord (1999), pp. 26-54 Published by: University of Wisconsin Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3685432 . Accessed: 21/09/2013 14:33 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
[email protected]. University of Wisconsin Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to SubStance. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 132.235.61.22 on Sat, 21 Sep 2013 14:33:15 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions L'InternationaleSituationniste, Socialismeou Barbarie,and theCrisis ofthe Marxist Imaginary StephenHastings-King The SituationnisteInternationale was a small transnationalgroup of artist-revolutionariesthat came outof the neo-Dadaist Lettriste movement.' In Paris,Guy Debord and a small,changing cast of friendsand supporting characters2tracked through the Parisian cultural and politicalunderground alongthe path laid earlierby the Surrealists.3 Skilled as provocateurs,anxious to abandon theconstraints of artisticproduction and to acquire legitimacy as revolutionaries,Debord and hisfriends almost immediately began to look to thejournal Socialismeou Barbarie,edited by thegroup of the same name led by CorneliusCastoriadis.4 SB is a crucial,though little discussed, referent in theevolution of Guy Debord.