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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.

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Enragés 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...

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Disinterest 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...

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What'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...

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CEM 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...

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On 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;...

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Critique 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...

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Remarks 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;...

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The 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....

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I 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,...

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The 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...

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Spectacular 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...

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Revolutionary self-theory: A beginners' manual - Larry Law

revolution01.jpg PDF of a Situationist pocketbook by Larry Law on revolutionary self-theory.

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In 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...

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The 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...

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The 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...

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The 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...

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Situationist 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...

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What is situationism?: a reader

1087084.jpg This anthology gathers together a broad range of critical material about the Situationist International.

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Lefebvre 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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