Situationist International

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

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

French Situationist Guy Debord's seminal analysis of consumer capitalism in the late 20th century.

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

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

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

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 considered in its economic, political, psychological, sexual, and particularly intellectual aspects, and a modest…

Debord and Wolman survey the wreckage of radical art movements.

In 1963, Debord discusses the emerging forces of contestation.

"The point is not to engage in some sort of revolutionary art-criticism, but to make a revolutionary critique of all art."

The Situationists explain their viewpoint...