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	About the Situationist International
		The situationist critique of capitalism is modernized in that it integrates the effects of mass media on the minds and behavior of the workers in contemporary consumer culture.
		The Situationist International advocated the voluntary & spontanious creation of workers councils at the time of a worker's revolution which would democraticaly own and manage the means of capital production, in order to ensure equal distribution of wealth: from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs.
		The very fact that the Situationist International represented a direct attack on capitalism using aesthetics as well as theory meant that capitalism must attempt to absorb it, or be destroyed by it (as with all countercultures, but counterculture alone without political organizing and activity is forever doomed to faulure).
	flag.blackened.net /liberty/situationist.html (835 words)

	Situationist - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Situationist International (SI), an international political and artistic movement, originated in the Italian village of Cosio d'Arroscia on 28 July 1957 with the fusion of several extremely small artistic tendencies: the Lettrist International, the International movement for an imaginist Bauhaus, and the London Psychogeographical Association.
		The Situationist movement exerted a strong influence on the UK punk rock phenomenon of the 1970s, for example, which in itself could be said to have changed the English cultural landscape during the last quarter of the twentieth century.
		An ironic example of recuperation, it could be argued, was the 1989 Situationist exhibition staged in Paris, Boston, and at the ICA gallery in London's Mall, wherein both original situationist manifestos, and contemporary Pro-Situ influenced works (records, fanzines, samizdat-style leaflets and propaganda) were presented as museum artifacts for the mass consumption of the art establishment.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Situationist_International (2178 words)

	Situationist International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Although the Situationist International are often embraced by anarchist theorists and activists, [8] the situationists themselves identified explicitly with Marxism.
		It is also from the situationists that many inherit the belief that revolutionary action should be primarily creative action, hinging on festivals and parades and not on the monotony and stifling regulation of rank-and-file and party organizations.
		As Jappe notes, the situationists “believed themselves to be the sole voice, at least in France, of a revolutionary theory adequate to the new era.” [17] We may conclude that as a result of their stance of theoretical purity, the situationists “had absolutely no part in this universe.
	affinityproject.org /groups/situationist.html (2028 words)

	Activist Desire, Cultural Criticism, and the Situationist International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Situationists staked their claims to authenticity and efficacy on a seamless relationship between the practices of everyday life and theory.
		While cultural criticism rarely calls for revolution in the sense that the Situationists understood the idea, its claims to legitimacy are located in precisely the same rhetorical move: the value of any theory must be assessed by its potential to be aligned with an immediate and transformative political practice.
		As early as the Letterist International, Debord was negatively gesturing at the spectacle in the concept of détournement.
	www.reconstruction.ws /021/Activist.htm (6433 words)

	Situationist : Recuperated
		The Situationists themselves took a dialectical viewpoint, seeing their task as superseding art, abolishing the notion of art as a separate, specialized activity and transforming it so was part of fabric of everyday life.
		The Situationist movement was a strong influence on the UK punk rock phenomenon of the 1970s for example, which in itself could be said to have changed the English cultural landscape during the last quarter of the twentieth century.
		An ironic example of recuperation, it could be argued, was the 1989 Situationist exhibition at the ICA gallery[?] in London's Mall, wherin both original situationist manifestos, and contemporary Pro-Situ influenced works (records, fanzines, samizdat-style leaflets and propaganda) were presented as museum artifacts for the mass consumption of the art establishment.
	www.findword.org /re/recuperated.html (1781 words)

	The Realization and Suppression of Situationism--Bob Black
		The Situationist International (1957-1972) was an international but Paris-based formation which recreated the avant garde tradition on a high plane of intelligence and intransigence.
		After resigning from the Situationist International in 1964, Trocchi went on to become a grey eminence of Scottish letters, and died in 1984 after 27 years as a junkie.
		The London show elicited a protest flyer by pro-situ Michel Prigent, "The Misadventures of the Situationist International in the Temple of Doom," castigating the belated academic discovery of the SI as "would be S.I. specialists from the capsizing world of decomposed thought.
	www.primitivism.com /situationism.htm (5022 words)

	Situationist International -- Constant
		Having been a co-founder of the Cobra group of artists in the late forties, he abandoned painting in 1953 to concentrate on the question of "construction".
		He became a founding member of the Situationist International in 1957 and played a central role in their experiments until his resignation in 1960.
		It was published widely in the international press in the 1960s and Constant quickly attained a prominent position in the world of experimental architecture.
	members.chello.nl /j.seegers1/situationist/constant.html (377 words)

	Situationist International (1957-1972)
		The Situationist International (SI) was an international political and artistic movement.
		The SI was founded in the Italian village of Cosio d'Arroscia on 28th July 1957 with the fusion of several extremely small artistic tendencies: the Lettrist International ; the International movement for an imaginist Bauhaus; and the London Psychogeographical Association.
		The events of May 1968 for the SI started at Strasbourg university in 1966 when the student union approached the SI to write a critique of student life, which was published using the union’s funds and was even given away at the university’s official opening at the beginning of the academic year.
	www.jahsonic.com /SI.html (3624 words)

	OccultForums.com - The Boy Scout's Guide to the Situationist International
		In opposition to this process they formed 'the Situationist International': a group consisting mostly of artists, intellectuals and the like (it has to be said), which set out to develop a new way of interpreting society as a whole.
		The Situationists' answer to "Urbanism" 'was the reconstruction or the entire environment, according to the needs of the people that inhabit it.
		The local, national, and international press condemned it as incitement to violence, which of course it unashamedly was.
	www.occultforums.com /showthread.php?t=6661 (5225 words)

	Situationist International \| Libertarian Communist Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		IN A MOMENT of universal history, the Situationist International imposed itself as the thought of the collapse of a world, a downfall that has now begun under our very eyes.
		The situationist movement can be seen as an artistic avant-garde, as an experimental investigation of possible ways for freely constructing everyday life, and as a contribution to the theoretical and practical development of a new revolutionary contestation.
		Raoul Vaneigem was one of the most important thinkers within the Situationist International as well as frequent editor of their journal Internationale Situationniste.
	www.libcom.org /library/taxonomy/term/138 (843 words)

	Tate \| Glossary \| Situationist International
		Revolutionary alliance of European avant-garde artists, writers and poets formed at a conference in Italy in 1957 (as Internationale Situationiste or IS).
		It combined two existing groupings, the Lettrist International and the International Union for a Pictorial Bauhaus.
		The IS developed a critique of capitalism based on a mixture of Marxism and Surrealism, and Debord identified consumer society as the Society of the Spectacle in his influential 1967 book of that title.
	www.tate.org.uk /collections/glossary/definition.jsp?entryId=277 (154 words)

	Back to the situationist international
		Indeed, situationists believed that, provided it was performed with insight and style, some strategy would enable a group of smart young men to beat the media at their own game and influence public opinion in a revolutionary way.
		Later, as situationist activity faded, there was not much left but an attitude, and soon not even the right one, as it indulged in self-valorization, council fetichism, a fascination for the hidden side of world affairs, plus mistaken analyses of Italy and Portugal.
		Of the very few groups which had a social impact on the subversive wave of the mid-60's, the Situationist International gave the best approximation of communism as it was conceived of at that time.
	troploin0.free.fr /biblio/backto (1678 words)

	Texts from the Spectacle
		The classic complement to debord's society of the spectacle, vaneigem examines the minutia of power as "abstracted mediation and mediated abstraction" that permeates everyday life and the means of seizing control of our lives and truly living.
		The publication that ended the Situationist International in 1972, this book contains the "These on the SI and its Time" by debord and Sanguinetti, by then the only remaining members.
		A situationist biographical examination of kenneth rexroth, the important anarchist poet of the twentieth century.
	www.fiu.edu /~mizrachs/situationist-bib.html (540 words)

	GLOBAL VISION : THE SITUATIONIST INTERNATIONAL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This idea is related to the practice of Situationism developed by the Situationist International (SI), an avant-guarde art movement and network of European artists and writers who were active during the 1950's and 60's.
		The Situationists were concerned and saddened by the fact that many goods and services - once shared outside of the monetized economy amongst friends or members of a neighbourhood - are increasingly available at a price.
		This was the context of the work of the Situationist International, a theoretical, political, and avant-garde that articulated the status of the art work in what has been art/si.enation and technological mediation.
	www.global-vision.org /art/si.html (1305 words)

	mital-U : Lettrist International - Situationist International
		The situationist wanted the transformation of the world into one which is in a constant state of revolution and newness, just as F.T. Marinetti had proposed half a century before in his Manifesto of Futurismo.
		Within their own environment the situationist ideas were a part of the actual pop-culture, a philosophical update of pop-art.
		Members of the Situationist International, Les Enrages and some others were forming The Council For The Maintenance Of The Occupation.
	www.mital-u.ch /Dada/situe.html (1844 words)

	THE REALIZATION AND SUPPRESSION OF SITUATIONISM by Bob Black
		The Situationist International (1957-1972) was an international but Paris-based formation which recreated the avant garde tradition on a high plane of intelligence and intransigence.
		The presentation in English of most Situationist and pro-situ texts has sharply tilted toward the suppression, not the realisation of art, diminishing the holism of the tendency and perhaps contributing to Situationist theory's exaggerated reputation for aridity.
		After resigning from the Situationist International in 1964, Trocchi went on to become a grey eminence of Scottish letters, and died in 1984 after 27 years as a junkie.
	www.spunk.org /library/writers/black/sp001671.html (5085 words)

	\|\|\|[ Preliminary Problems ]\|\|\|[ Psychogeography ]\|\|\|[ Superimposed City Tours ]\|\|\|[ Monocular Times ]\|\|\| (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The really experimental direction of situationist activity consists in setting up, on the basis of more or less clearly recognized desires, a temporary field of activity favorable to these desires.
		It is thus likely that they will share a number of situationist themes and desires, which will increasingly diversify once they are brought into a phase of real activity.
		Real individual fulfillment, which is also involved in the artistic experience that the situationists are discovering, entails the collective takeover of the world.
	www.monoculartimes.co.uk /city-tours/psychogeography/preliminaryproblems.shtml (922 words)

	French Culture \| Books \| Rumney: The Consul (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		1934) was the founder of the London Psychogeographical Society, a precursor of the Situationist International (1957).
		It was Ralph's involvement with the Situationists that was most important to him, and which has, in part, led to the rediscovery of his work.
		There is a set of photographs from the first meeting of the Situationist International, in the Italian village of Cosio d'Arroscia in July 1957.
	www.frenchculture.org /books/release/literary/rumneyconsul.html (848 words)

	MMU Sociology - Driftnet - Situationist International
		The Situationist International (SI) was a political movement formed in 1957 in Italy.
		Situationists, and most notably Guy Debord, were vigorously opposed to what was famously called the 'society of the spectacle' - the dominant all-pervading culture of capitalism and commodification.
		The present phase of total occupation of social life by the accumulated results of the economy leads to a generalized sliding of having into appearing, from which all actual "having" must draw its immediate prestige and its ultimate function.
	www.sociology.mmu.ac.uk /driftnet_si.php (443 words)

	Situationism
		Bureau of Public Secrets - Ken Knabb's translations from the Situationist International (the notorious avant-garde group that triggered the May 1968 revolt in France).
		Situationist Histories - A recounting of events united by a common theme that emphasizes unseen patterns in life.
		Situationist International Online - Comprehensive resource and archive of virtually every situationist text available in English, with an extensive chronology, glossary and individually biographies, as well as an international link directory.
	www.supercrawler.com /Society/Politics/Anarchism/Situationism (268 words)

	SITUATIONIST FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Situationist International (SI), an international political and artistic movement, originated in the Italian village of Cosio_d'Arroscia on 28_July 1957 with the fusion of several extremely small artistic tendencies: the Lettrist International, the International_movement_for_an_imaginist_Bauhaus, and the London_Psychogeographical_Association.
		One way or another, the currents which the SI took as predecessors saw their purpose as involving a radical redefinition of the role of art in the twentieth_century.
		The one prominent split in the group resulted in the Paris section retaining the name Situationist International while the German section, or the Second_Situationist_International organised under the name of Gruppe_SPUR.
	www.dontpayyourtaxes.com /Situationist (2076 words)

	Interactivist Info Exchange \| Why Art Can't Kill the Situationist International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Proposition 4: Situationist theory, especially as represented by Debord's The Society of the Spectacle, is hopelessly young-Hegelian -- rhetorical, totalizing, resting on a metaphysical hostility to "mere" appearance or representation, and mounting a last-ditch defense of the notion of authenticity, whether of individual or class subject.
		For the Situationists, the overwhelming reality was Stalinism, the damage and horror it had given rise to, and its capacity to reproduce itself, in ever newer and technically more plausible forms, within a Left that had never faced its own complicity or infection.
		But the Situationists never got stuck in their own turmoil, and they went on thinking, especially as things heated up in the course of 1967, about how they were to act -- to "expand" -- if the capitalist State offered them an opportunity.
	slash.autonomedia.org /article.pl?sid=02/06/29/0139259 (4058 words)

	Situationism: Panacea or Placebo. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		It marks the year of a schism within the group and the foundation of a second Situationist International, allowing Guy Debord to secure his position as head of an almost military junta, dictating a purified form of politicised situationist theory to the remains of the original International 3.
		The Second Situationist International consisted originally of the Movement for a Scandinavian Bauhaus Situationist, the SPUR group from Germany, as well as other refugees from the first International.
		Enrages and the Situationists in the Occupation Movement, May-June 1968.
	www.backspace.org /everything/e/hard/texts2/1sits.html (1725 words)

	Capital & Class: legacy of the Situationist International: The production of situations of creative resistance, The
		The concluding discussion suggests some of the directions that the Situationists' theory offers by examining their contribution to acts of resistance, creativity and participation, and ways in which creative cultural production is prefigured by the s.i.'s work.
		The 'specto' prefix denotes the regrouping of the s.i.
		Tensions with Nash were expressed at the 5th Conference of the Situationist International in Götenborg, Sweden, 28-30 August 1961.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3780/is_200401/ai_n9366232 (1350 words)

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