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The Situationist International Anthology is the most comprehensive and accurately translated collection of situationist writings in English.
In 1957 a few European avant-garde groups came together to form the Situationist International. Picking up where the dadaists and surrealists had left off, the situationists challenged people’s passive conditioning with carefully calculated…
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This collection of articles shows that the theory of the Situationists has a strong anarchic character and does not ignore the economy or the social conflicts confronted in everyday life, as some readers of their theory may believe.
The spectacle, as used by the Situationists, does not take place on a different plane to that of commodity fetishism or alienation in everyday living, as sadly some scholars hold.
In my understanding, the Situationists had a clear understanding of commodity fetishism and alienation in everyday life. They also had a concept of corporeal materialism and the negativity that defetishizes the apparent,…
From Vasilis' list on a critical theory of social illusion and democracy.
This collection includes Guy DeBord’s essay on dérive, a form of playful examination of urban spaces, exploring what draws us, what repels us, and breaking from the routines and pathways of our day-to-day survival. It’s a call to wonder.
Debord’s ideas inspired my approach to Drifter and how I organized not only the construction of individual poems but the connecting themes of the whole book. Debord’s writing is typically French in its intense and passionate thought and delightfully wistful way of liberating yourself from tired perceptions.
From Douglas' list on your journey as a drifter.
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