Notes on "the Situationist International: the art of historical intervention" - Miguel Amorós
Submitted by Alias Recluse on Aug 11 2013 18:35
A short summary of the history of the Situationist International, with brief discussions of its artistic origins, its significance as the “the most political artistic vanguard and the most artistic political vanguard” of its time, the role of the critique of everyday life in the development of its project, and the recuperation of many situationist themes by capitalism since May ’68, whose achievements with regard to individual freedom "were nothing but the pale reflection of the freedom of the market”.
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Debord and Wolman survey the wreckage of radical art movements.
