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.

Theses on the Situationist International and Its Time

Debord and Sanguinetti look back over the history of the Situationists and rather optimistically attempt to place them in historical perspective.

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IN A MOMENT of universal history, the Situationist International imposed itself as the thought of the collapse of a world, a downfall that has now begun under our very eyes.

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Preliminaries Toward Defining a Unitary Revolutionary Program

This text is described in Internationale Situationniste #5 (p. 11) as "a platform for discussion within the SI, and for its linkup with revolutionary militants of the workers movement."

Translated by Ken Knabb (slightly modified from the version in the Situationist International Anthology).

On the poverty of student life

On the poverty of student life considered in its economic, political, psychological, sexual, and particularly intellectual aspects, and a modest proposal for its remedy

Published by UNEF, Strasbourg 1966

First published in 1966 at the University of Strasbourg by students of the university and members of the Internationale Situationniste.

Pourquoi le lettrisme?

Debord and Wolman survey the wreckage of radical art movements.

The Situationists and the New Forms of Action in Politics and Art

In 1963, Debord discusses the emerging forces of contestation.

For a Revolutionary Judgment of Art

"The point is not to engage in some sort of revolutionary art-criticism, but to make a revolutionary critique of all art."

In Short (Two Summaries of Situationist Perspectives)

The Situationists explain their viewpoint...

Intakes: Back to the Situationist International

Critique of The Situationist International by Gilles Dauve (Jean Barrot) is one of the more important texts on the situationists.We reprint below an update to the text which is due to be published in Greek by TPTG.

The revolution of everyday life - Raoul Vaneigem

Raoul Vaneigem was one of the most important thinkers within the Situationist International as well as frequent editor of their journal Internationale Situationniste. The Revolution of Everyday Life, written in Vaneigem's typically poetic style, is one of the most important of the Situationist texts, attacking the alienation of capitalist life not only at work but also in our 'free' time

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