Situationist Liberation Front

SITUATIONIST LIBERATION FRONT

“Parlez vous francais?”

- G-E. Debord

The Situationese are an oppressed minority of intellectuals, shoplifters, publishers, students and even workers. Every day we find increasing resistance to the free practice of our native situationist cultural heritage. We must be allowed to practice the role which comes to us naturally - that of a radical jade and ardent esoteric.

Situationism is being attacked from precisely two sides-those who wish to ignore us, and those who wish to shoot us. Both stem from the failure to comprehend the need for an ideological supersession of ideology. The ignoring of situationists proceeds from a defecatory reification; the shooting of situationists becomes a reificatory defecation.

To our oppressors we merely quote the profound self-reflexive challenge which Frederick Engels, in 1831, once posed to an acquaintance of his ”Go fuck yourself.”

We hereby issue this minimal set of demands necessary for the reproduction of our existence:

We demand the right to fulfill the requirements of our intrinsic character structure by the production and revision of detailed critical theories concerning the poverty of the critiques of other situationists. (See our forthcoming work on this matter: "Theses on the Sensuous Nature of the Night of the Generalized Qualitative Transformation of Potatoes into a State of Unitary Rottenness (FauInis).")

We demand the right to carry out our dialogs by means of bookstore shelves and P.O. Boxes, rather than being forced to face each other directly.

We demand that a cure be found for the crippling disease of hammer-and-sickle cell anemia, which attacks situationists causing a deterioration of their appearances and making them resemble awkward leftists.

We demand de-fetishized sexual fetishes.

We wish to emphasize the genocidal nature of the attempts to suppress the realization of our demands. Our activities are aimed within the limits of our ethnic group and are thus harmless. We do not threaten the functioning of any external social relations.

(With regards to those illusory bigots who feel that our critiques of critiques of critiques are counter-revolutionary, and who would say that our traditional coherent critical dialogs and denunciations are merely sit-picking inquisitions; they might be better off abandoning sit. forms altogether and communicating with each other on how to go about changing what-in-the-world it is that seems to be bothering them. Carried to an extreme, such incoherent malcontents might even find themselves communicating with a miscellany of persons, including some who even admit to not having read Marx!!)

We are an ad-hoc coalition of concerned situationist committees struggling against our oppression. To this end we have temporarily ignored our fundamental differences to publish this leaflet. Tomorrow we start calling each other pro-situs again:

• Classified Situationism*
Box 1044
Berkeley, CA 94704

• Autoapotheotic Situationism*
Box 14221
San Francisco, CA 94114

• Saprogenic Situationism
Box 2233 - Station .A
Berkeley, CA 94702

• Infantile Situationism*
Box 950
Berkeley, CA 94701

• Superseded Situationism*
Box 4502
Berkeley, CA 94701

• Megalomaniacal Situationism
Box 754
Berkeley, CA 94701

• Pseudo-Situationism
Sproul Plaza table
Berkeley, CA 94701

• Eclectic Situationism
Box 1213
Berkeley, CA 94701

• Egomaniacal Situationism
Box 1503
Palo Alto, CA 94302

• National Situationism
Box 24112
Oakland, CA 94623

• Lewd Situationism
Box 6461
San Francisco, CA 94101

• Billboard Situationism
Box 2141
San Jose, CA 95109

• Journalistic Situationism
Box 531
Berkeley, CA 94701

• Musical Situationism
Box 282
Palo Alto, CA 94302

*We used to ask you to write us - now we ask you not to.... This way we can feel more successful when ignored.

Revamped PDF version courtesy of Lust For Life.