Well said, SI!

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Well Said SI!

“The Council has decided that all people who collaborate with the journal Arguments starting from January 1st, 1961, cannot be admitted under any circumstances, now or in the future, among the Situationists. The announcement of this boycott draws its force from the importance that we know the S.I. secures at least in the culture of the years ahead. Interested parties can bet, on the contrary, on the dubious company it will attract.”

(Resolution of the C.C. Of the SI, 6 November 1960, published in Internationale Situationniste #5 – page 13 – December 1960.)

“Maybe one day we’ll dare to face the problem of God, to question religion and the sacred.”

(Opening statement of the editorial of Arguments #24, fourth quarter 1961, published in March 1962.)

“One could go so far as to term this level of everyday life a colonised sector… Everyday life, policed and mystified by every means, is a sort of reservation for the good natives who keep modern society running without understanding it — this society with its rapid growth of technological powers and the forced expansion of its market.

(Internationale Situationniste #6 – page 22 – August 1961.)

“Today it strikes [one] that everyday life, considered in sum, can be seen as the colonised domain of existence, as a “reservation” for the good natives who keep society running, [and which has] become the enemy of any militant activity. ”

(Arguments #25-26 – page 46 – 1st and 2nd quarters of 1961, published in June.)

“All texts published in Internationale Situationniste may be freely reproduced, translated and adapted, even without indication of origin.”

(Anti-copyright warning at the beginning of all issues of I.S.)

AND NOW, THE PROOF OF OUR JUDGMENT IS MADE: “ARGUMENTS” HAS TO DIE!

Translated by Ian Thompson (July 2013), except for quote from ‘Internationale Situationniste 5 translated by Anthony Hayes “with help from NOT BORED!”, and quote from ‘Internationale Situationniste 6 translated by Ken Knabb.