Situationist International

Content by or about the Situationist International, an international organisation of social revolutionaries made up of avant-garde (anti-)artists, intellectuals, and political theorists which was prominent in Europe from its formation in 1957 to its dissolution in 1972.

Situationist map of Paris

Situationist map of Paris

How situationist books are not understood

The Situationists reply to some misrepresentations and stupidities of their critics. From Internationale Situationniste #12 (September 1969).

Reform and counterreform in the bureaucratic bloc: Czechoslovakia 1968

Article by the Situationist International about the Prague Spring, 1968. From Internationale…

cover of IS 12 in metallic purple with black text

Internationale Situationniste #12

Issue 12 of the journal of the Situationist International. The final issue, published in September 1969.

Situationist International on Films

Situationist International on Films -On the Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Period of Time -Critique of Separation

Pre-Situationist International Documents

Pre-Situationist International Documents A series of documents by later SI members.

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Preface to the Situationist International Anthology

Ken Knabb's introduction to the anthology of his translations of SI texts.

Society of the Spectacle - Guy Debord

French Situationist Guy Debord's seminal analysis of consumer capitalism in the late 20th century. Translated by Ken Knabb, 2002.

Critique of the Situationist International - Gilles Dauve

Gilles Dauve's analysis of both the Situationists' theoretical strengths and weaknesses. Originally…

The Book of Pleasures - Raoul Vaneigem

Vaneigem investigates the relationship between pleasure, desire and class struggle...

Theses on the Situationist International and Its Time

Debord and Sanguinetti look back over the history of the Situationists and rather optimistically attempt to place them in historical perspective.

Preliminaries Toward Defining a Unitary Revolutionary Program

This text is described in Internationale Situationniste #5 (p. 11) as "a platform for discussion within the SI, and for its linkup with revolutionary militants of the workers movement." Translated by Ken Knabb (slightly modified from the version in the Situationist International Anthology).

On the Poverty of Student Life or De la misère en milieu étudiant

On the poverty of student life

On the poverty of student life considered in its economic, political, psychological, sexual, and particularly intellectual aspects, and a modest…