Detourned comic strip produced by Tony Verlaan for the Council for the Liberation of Daily Life and subsequently distributed by the American Section of the Situationist International.
Bad enough that we should be plagued with an American equivalent for every half-baked ideologist in France, the stars of the Columbia debacle engineered an International Conference in New York in late September 1968. Foreign ideologists (the real thing) were imported for the show; for the planners and invited participants, revolutionary internationalism was practically understood as a variation on the international commodity spectacle and not as its negation. In this soup, an incoherent anarchist and a JCR Trot were representative of the crumbs 'representing' the revolutionaries in France. Our comrade Tony Verlaan intervened in this ideological sideshow, exposing it for what it was. The comics, 'The Great Late Show of Opposition," issued immediately thereafter, is the adequate chronicle of this pseudo-event and its disruption.
Situationist International #1 (June 1969)
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