Anatomy of a scandal – Miguel Amorós
Submitted by Alias Recluse on Feb 20 2018 21:56
An account of the “Strasbourg Scandal” of 1966—widely recognized as a precursor to the greater scandal of May 1968—its background, its protagonists, the takeover of the local student union and the origins of the pamphlet, “The Poverty of Student Life…”, the role played by the members of the Situationist International in the affair, particularly Debord and Mustapha Khayati, the humiliating exclusion of the “Garnaultins” in January 1967, and the SI’s subsequent descent into an even more rigid and unapproachable sectarian existence until its dissolution in 1972.
Class Struggles in Algeria
Published clandestinely in Algeria as a pamphlet, December 1965; trans. by Ken Knabb
Nothing is sacred, everything can be spoken - Raoul Vaneigem
Among the most influential members of Situationist International, Vaneigem is inspired by facts and debates on the agenda in order to rip apart the certainties of the right-thinking self-righteous and the claims of those who stand in judgement and censorship. A provocative pamphlet in the wake of the enlightenment and libertarian tradition.
The Situationists and May 1968 – Miguel Amorós
Submitted by Alias Recluse on Oct 14 2017 16:08
A brief review of the role played by the situationists, the enragés, and the Council for the Maintenance of the Occupations (CMDO—composed of “about forty people”) in the movement of May 1968 in France, which the situationists claimed was an aborted “revolution”, but whose “only major victory”, according to Amorós, was “its survival in memory” for, “contrary to the assertions of the SI, the modernization of capitalism and the general proletarianization of the population … did not produce new, broader, and more intransigent forces of denial”, as the spectacle “subjugated its antagonists by manipulating their desires and satisfying false needs”, and its “mercenary thinkers finished the job”.
The workers of Italy and the revolt in Reggio Calabria
Submitted by Steven. on Jul 16 2017 11:49
Article written in October 1970 by the Milan section of the Situationist International on the violent uprising in Reggio Calabria.
The Situationist Times
The Situationist Times was an international, English-language periodical created and edited by Jacqueline de Jong, of which six issues were published between 1962 and 1967. A radical compendium using such Situationist tactics as détournement and a printed form of dérive, the journal included essays, artwork, found images, and quotations concerned with such issues as topology, politics, and spectacle culture.
An introduction to the situationists - Jan D Matthews
A brief introduction to the history and ideas of the libertarian Marxist group the Situationist International.
Notes on Society of the spectacle - Ken Knabb
Helpful notes on Guy Debord's seminal text, Society of the Spectacle, put together by translator Ken Knabb.
Preface to the fourth Italian edition of The Society of the spectacle - Guy Debord
English edition of the preface to a translation of Debord's seminal text Society of the spectacle.
Lefebvre on the Situationists: an interview
Submitted by Jacques Roux on Feb 11 2015 16:58
An at times playful conversation with Henri Lefebvre conducted by Kristin Ross. Lefebvre, then in his eighties, discussed his memories of Guy Debord and the Situationist International as well as his attempts to provoke mischievous students around Nanterre University in 1968, where the May uprisings began. Originally published in October 79 (1997).
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