Title & Author:

Situationist International anthology / edited and translated from the French by Ken Knabb.

Edition:

Revised and expanded edition.

Publication:

Berkeley, CA : Bureau of Public Secrets, 2006.

Description:

1 online resource (x, 532 pages)

Notes:
"No copyright. Any of the texts in this book may be freely reproduced, translated or adapted, even without mentioning the source"--Title page verso.
"The major portion of the anthology is drawn from the French journal Internationale Situationniste"--Page ix.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-499) and indexes.
Pre-S.I. Texts -- Formulary for a New Urbanism (Chtcheglov, 1953) -- Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geography (Debord, 1955) -- Proposals for Rationally Improving the City of Paris (Lettrist International, 1955) -- A User's Guide to Detournement (Debord & Wolman, 1956) -- The Alba Platform (Lettrist International, 1956) -- Notes on the Formation of an Imaginist Bauhaus (Jorn, 1957) -- Report on the Construction of Situations (Debord, 1957) -- French Journals -- #1. (1958) -- The Sound and the Fury -- Preliminary Problems in Constructing a Situation -- Theses on Cultural Revolution (Debord) -- The Situationists and Automation (Jorn) -- No Useless Leniency (Bernstein) -- Action in Belgium Against the International Assembly of Art Critics -- #2. (1958) -- Theory of the Derive (Debord) -- #3. (1959) -- Detournement as Negation and Prelude -- Situationist Theses on Traffic (Debord) -- Another City for Another Life (Constant) -- #4. (1960) -- The Use of Free Time -- Gangland and Philosophy (Kotanyi) -- #5. (1960) -- The Adventure -- The Fourth SI Conference in London -- #6. (1961) -- Instructions for an Insurrection -- Basic Program of the Bureau of Unitary Urbanism (Kotanyi & Vaneigem) -- Perspectives for Conscious Changes in Everyday Life (Debord) -- #7. (1962) -- Geopolitics of Hibernation -- The Bad Days Will End -- The Fifth SI Conference in Goteborg -- Basic Banalities (Part 1) (Vaneigem) -- #8. (1963) -- Ideologies, Classes, and the Domination of Nature -- The Avant-Garde of Presence -- The Counter-Situationist Campaign in Various Countries -- All the King's Men -- Basic Banalities (Part 2) (Vaneigem) -- Anti-Public Relations Notice -- #9. (1964) -- Now, the SI -- Questionnaire -- Response to a Questionnaire from the Center for Socio-Experimental Art -- #10. (1966) -- Address to Revolutionaries of Algeria and of All Countries -- The Decline and Fall of the Spectacle-Commodity Economy -- The Class Struggles in Algeria -- Contribution to a Councilist Program in Spain -- Some Theoretical Topics That Need To Be Dealt With (Vaneigem) -- Captive Words: Preface to a Situationist Dictionary (Khayati) -- The Role of Godard -- The Ideology of Dialogue -- Interview with an Imbecile -- The Algeria of Daniel Guerin, Libertarian -- Domenach versus Alienation -- #11. (1967) -- The Explosion Point of Ideology in China -- Two Local Wars -- Our Goals and Methods in the Strasbourg Scandal -- The Situationists and the New Forms of Action Against Politics and Art (Vienet) -- Aiming for Practical Truth (Vaneigem) -- Setting Straight Some Popular Misconceptions About Revolutions in the Underdeveloped Countries (Khayati) -- Minimum Definition of Revolutionary Organizations -- Three Postscripts to the Previous Issue -- #12. (1969) -- The Beginning of an Era -- Reform and Counterreform in the Bureaucratic Bloc -- How Not To Understand Situationist Books -- Preliminaries on Councils and Councilist Organization (Riesel) -- Notice to the Civilized Concerning Generalized Self-Management (Vaneigem) -- The Conquest of Space in the Time of Power (Rothe) -- The Latest Exclusions -- The Elite and the Backward -- Cinema and Revolution -- The Organization Question for the SI (Debord) -- Miscellaneous Publications -- Preliminaries Toward Defining a Unitary Revolutionary Program (Canjuers & Debord, 1960) -- For a Revolutionary Judgment of Art (Debord, 1961) -- Theses on the Paris Commune (Debord, Kotanyi, Vaneigem, 1962) -- The Situationists and the New Forms of Action in Politics and Art (Debord, 1963) -- On the Poverty of Student Life (1966) -- In Short (1965 & 1969) -- May 1968 Documents -- Communique -- Watch Out for Manipulators! Watch Out for Bureaucrats! -- Slogans To Be Spread Now by Every Means -- Telegrams -- Report on the Occupation of the Sorbonne -- For the Power of the Workers Councils -- Address to All Workers -- Graffiti -- Internal Texts -- Provisional Statutes of the SI (1969) -- Provisional Theses for the Discussion of New Theoretico-Practical Orientations in the SI (Salvadori, 1970) -- Remarks on the SI Today (Debord, 1970) -- Declaration (Debord, Riesel, Vienet, 1970) -- Untitled Text (Debord, 1971) -- The Blind Men and the Elephant -- Index to Debord's the Society of the Spectacle -- Index to Vaneigem's the Revolution of Everyday Life.
Translated from the French.

Summary:

"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 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" pseudo-opposition, and their new methods of agitation helped trigger the May 1968 revolt in France. Since then--although the SI itself was dissolved in 1972--situationist theories and tactics have continued to inspire radical currents all over the world. The Situationist International anthology, generally recognized as the most comprehensive and accurately translated collection of situationist writings in English, presents a rich variety of articles, leaflets, graffiti and internal documents, ranging from early experiments in "psychogeography" to lucid analyses of the Watts riot, the Vietnam War, the Prague Spring, the Chinese Cultural Revolution and other crises and upheavals of the sixties. For this new edition the translations have all been fine-tuned and over 100 pages of new material have been added"--Publisher's description.

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ISBN:

9780939682041
0939682044

Subject:

Internationale situationniste.
Situationistiska internationalen.
Radicalism Europe.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Europe.
Civilization.
Radicalisme Europe.
Civilisation.
civilization.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Radicalism
Situationistische Internationale.
Revolutionair socialisme.
Kunstenaarsgroepen.
Engagement.
Experimentell konst 1950-talet 1960-talet.
Avantgarde (estetik) 1950-talet 1960-talet.
Europe
Europa (geografie)
Situationism

Added entries:

Knabb, Ken, compiler, editor, translator.
Internationale situationniste.
Internationale situationniste (Periodical)