Situationist International
The SI was a libertarian socialist group founded in France. Famous for its writings on modern culture among other things, it played an important role in sparking the French mass strikes of 1968.
May 1968 Documents - Situationist International
Documents produced by the Situationist International or groups the Situationists were involved with during the mass strike and revolt of the glorious May 1968 in France.
Theses on the Paris Commune - Situationist International
"...it is time we examine the Commune not just as an outmoded example of revolutionary primitivism, all of whose mistakes can easily be overcome, but as a positive experiment whose whole truth has yet to be rediscovered and fulfilled."
Internationale Situationiste
Internationale Situationiste, aka International Situationist: the journal of the Situationist International - Issues 1-12
How Not To Understand Situationist Books (excerpts)
The Situationists reply to some misrepresentations and stupidities of their critics.
Situationist International on Films
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Situationist International on Films
-On the Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Period of Time
-Critique of Separation
Pre-Situationist International Documents
Pre-Situationist International Documents
A series of documents by later SI members.
Preface to the Situationist International Anthology
A lot of the texts in the library come from the "SI Anthology" whose contents are set out below, BUT there's lot of other stuff that doesn't...
Society of the Spectacle - Guy Debord
French Situationist Guy Debord's seminal analysis of consumer capitalism in the late 20th century.
La Société du Spectacle was first published in 1967 by Editions Buchet-Chastel (Paris); it was reprinted in 1971 by Champ Libre (Paris). The first English translation was published by Black & Red in 1970. It was revised in 1977, incorporating numerous improvements suggested by friends and critics of the first translation.
Critique of the Situationist International
Gilles Dauve's analysis of both the Situationists' theoretical strengths and weaknesses.
Ideology and the Wage System
Capitalism transforms life into the money necessary for living. One tends to do any particular thing towards an end other than that implied by the content of the activity. The logic of alienation : one is an other; the wage system makes one foreign to what one does, to what one is, to other people.
The Book Of Pleasures
Vaneigem investigates the relationship between pleasure, desire and class struggle...
Preface
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