Comments on the Society of the Spectacle - Guy Debord
guy-debord.jpg The thoughts of Guy Debord on the Society of the Spectacle written in 1988; two decades after his original celebrated work on the subject.
View ArticleEnragés and Situationists in the Occupations Movement
May68.jpg This work was written collectively by the Situationist International in the immediate aftermath of May 1968. It comprises their own account of the Situationists' contribution to the Movement...
View ArticleDisinterest compounded daily: A critique of Point-Blank as a revolutionary...
Polbhem1$point-blank-kill-your-boss.jpg Two former participants in the 1970s US situationist grouping Point Blank, Gina Rosenberg and Chris Shutes, critique the organisation. [i] Chris Shutes was a...
View ArticleWhat's Free is the Absolute Weapon - An Interview with Raoul Vaneigem
RaoulVaneigem7.jpg An interview with Raoul Vaneigem, author of the Revolution of Everyday Life, in the Winter of 2011 by Siné Mensuel. An interview with the former situationist by one of his old...
View ArticleCEM additions to 'On the poverty of student life'
From the Council for the Eruption of the Marvelous’s rather freely adapted edition (May 1970, 3000 copies) of the 1966 situationist pamphlet On the Poverty of Student Life. While making only a few...
View ArticleOn the poverty of hip life
tumblr_lxec8khdg21r39u44o1_500.jpg A pro-situ critique of "hip" life written by Contradiction in April 1972. The values which formerly braced the organization of appearances have lost their power;...
View ArticleCritique of the New Left Movement
weathermen pic.jpg Contradiction's examination of the US New Left, a broad movement which encompassed Bookchinism, the Weathermen, Yippies, Women Liberation and Communalism. The Movement in Generalread...
View ArticleRemarks on Contradiction and its failure
Ken Knabb's notes on the US pro-situ group Contradiction of which he was a member, it's work, dissolution and 'failure'. “Now... the story... does not disperse indefinitely like the banal actuality;...
View ArticleThe joy of revolution - Ken Knabb
knabb1.jpg Ken Knabb's book The Joy of Revolution which examines the pros and cons of diverse radical tactics and speculates on how a stateless, classless, post-revolutionary society may function....
View ArticleI accuse Harvard University
harvard_university_2005201084846SA.jpg A situationist critique of Harvard’s 1969 Left politics. “Whereas this project was undertaken by individuals at different points in their growth to consciousness,...
View ArticleThe bad days will end
tumblr_mdxx73By2m1rx8e9ho1_1280.jpg Optimistic text from the Situationist International that suggests whilst previous revolts have failed, future ones may not. As the world of the spectacle extends its...
View ArticleSpectacular Times
media09.jpg Partial archive of a series of small 'pocketbooks' in the late 1970s/early 1980s entitled 'Spectacular Times' by Larry Law. They serve as a brief introduction to situationist ideas. Each...
View ArticleRevolutionary self-theory: A beginners' manual - Larry Law
revolution01.jpg PDF of a Situationist pocketbook by Larry Law on revolutionary self-theory.
View ArticleIn Conversation with Raoul Vaneigem - Hans Ulrich Obrist
vlcsnap-2013-02-02-16h36m14s204.png Interview with Raoul Vaneigem on the future of anarchism post 2009. Hans Ulrich Obrist: I just visited Edouard Glissant and Patrick Chamoiseau, who have written an...
View ArticleThe mob who shouldn't really be here - Hari Kunzru
king_mob_anti_culture_0.jpg Short piece on the actions of the situationist King Mob and their fellow travellers. The radical 1960s English group King Mob called themselves the ‘gangsters of the new...
View ArticleThe Gurriers 1969
gurriers011.jpg This text was produced in 1969 and handed out at University College, Dublin and also at the anti-apartheid demonstration against the Springbok Rugby tour that year. It was produced by...
View ArticleThe veritable report on the last chance to save capitalism in Italy - Censor
fontana.jpg A brilliant hoax report by former Situationist International member Gianfranco Sanguinetti purporting to be by a cultured Italian aristocrat calling himself "Censor". It was sent to 520 of...
View ArticleSituationist International anthology - Ken Knabb
cover.jpg E-book of the most comprehensive collection of writings of the Situationist International in English translated and compiled by Ken Knabb. In 1957 a few European avant-garde groups came...
View ArticleWhat is situationism?: a reader
1087084.jpg This anthology gathers together a broad range of critical material about the Situationist International.
View ArticleLefebvre on the Situationists: an interview
hen.jpg 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...
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