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	Situationist - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The notion of situationism is obviously devised by antisituationists."
		While the entire history of the Situationists was marked by their impetus to revolutionize life, the split was characterised by Vaneigem (of the French section), and by many subsequent critics, as marking a transition in the French group from the Situationist view of revolution possibly taking an "artistic" form to an involvement in "political" agitation.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Situationist (2871 words)

	Situationist
		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.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/re/Recuperated.html (1651 words)

	the Situationist International
		The Situationist International was a political and artistic group formed in 1957 with the merging of several groups namely the “International Movement for an Imaginative Bauhaus”, “The Lettrist International” and “The London Psychogeographic Society”;.
		Situationist slogans were painted on the walls of Paris as the Students took on the state in pitched battles on the streets.
		Thus the signature of the situationist movement, the sign of its presence and contestation in contemporary cultural reality (since we cannot represent any common style whatsoever), is first of all the use of détournement.
	www.spacehijackers.org /html/ideas/bookclub/situationist.html (3397 words)

	Dérive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Situationist International outlined it in Internationale Situationniste #1 as "a mode of experimental behavior linked to the conditions of urban society: a technique of transient passage through varied ambiances.
		French philosopher and Situationist Guy Debord used this idea to try and convince readers to revisit the way they looked at urban spaces.
		Rather than being prisoners to their daily route and routine, living in a complex city but treading the same path every day, he urged people to follow their emotions and to look at urban situations in a radical new way.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/D%C3%A9rive (518 words)

	Activist Desire, Cultural Criticism, and the Situationist International
		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.
		If contemporary critics read the Situationist project as creating a lived relationship that would at every step actualize its theoretical possibilities in concretized practice, such a move is based as much on the S.I.'s own claims as on a simplistic and unexamined response to the events of 1968.
	reconstruction.eserver.org /021/Activist.htm (6433 words)

	About the Situationist International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
		Most vital to situationists was the avoidence of any reliance on a set of bureacratic administrators, but rather the creation of a grass-roots, bottom-up democratic structure, with maximal preservation of liberty for the individual.
		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 International
		The derive, or drift, was defined by the Situationists as the "technique or locomotion without a goal", in which "one or more persons during a certain period drop their usual motives for movement and action, their relations.
		Detournment is used by the Situationists to demonstrate the poverty of everyday life despite society's plentiful commodities.
		We will learn first hand what the Situationists were attempting to demonstration: the narrowness and rigidity of what life currently is and what it has the capacity of being.
	www.uweb.ucsb.edu /~setzer/page1.html (818 words)

	The Situationist International Text Library/The Boy Scout's Guide to the Situationist International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
		Unlike traditional revolutionary groups, the Situationists were not concerned with the improvement of existing society, or reforming it.
	library.nothingness.org /articles/SI/en/display/240 (2695 words)

	fAf :: Ezine - reviews
		Debord and the Situationists were partly inspired by Lefebvre's 'critique of everyday life' [14] and developed it further.
		For the Situationists, however, the critique had to become a transformation of everyday life and this was meant to take place in a form of subversion.
		It is mostly the randomness of the encounter (which the Situationists systematised) which signifies the ideas of the Situationists and their radical ways of capturing the encountered city (often artistically, sometimes intellectually).
	www.fineartforum.org /Backissues/Vol_17/faf_v17_n08/reviews/hartmann.html (3319 words)

	Questionnaire: Situationist International - www.ezboard.com
		Situationists are more readily discussed as individuals in an effort to separate them from the collective contestation, although this collective contestation is the only thing that makes them “interesting” individuals.
		Situationists are talked about the moment they cease to be situationists (as with the rival varieties of “Nashism” in several countries, whose only common claim to fame is that they lyingly pretend to have some sort of relationship with the SI).
		As for the situationists’ own conditions, they stated that they had no objection to publishers, film producers, patrons, etc., interested in financing situationist projects, whether disinterestedly or in the hope of making profits, as long as it was understood that the situationists would retain total control over the form and content of the projects.
	p198.ezboard.com /fanarchismfrm3.showMessage?topicID=24.topic (4071 words)

	Guy Debord and the Situationists
		The Situationists therefore wanted a different kind of revolution: they wanted the imagination, not a group of men, to seize power, and poetry and art to be made by all.
		Inspired by the libertarian journal _Socialisme on Barbarie_, the Situationists rediscovered the history of the anarchist movement, particularly during the period of the First International, and drew inspiration from Spain, Kronstadt, and the Makhnovists.
		Members of the Situationist International (SI) co-operated with the _enrages_ from Nanterre University in the Occupations COmmittee of the Sorbonne, an assembly held in permanent session.
	catless.ncl.ac.uk /Obituary/debord.html (1487 words)

	Simon Sadler, The Situationist City
		The situationists were interested in neither politics nor chaos; their concerns, rather, were with general social revolution and the new organization of life to come.
		Throughout his book, Sadler refers to "situationists," and not to the situationists, thereby destroying the carefully established and diligently maintained boundary constructed by the SI between its members and people who had ideas or methods that might be construed as similar to those that they held or used.
		The situationists' caution about a 'situationism' was a clever way of reminding themselves of the dangers of becoming 'academic' in their procedures, a fate that had befallen their avant-garde predecessors, the surrealists, 'policed' as they were by their spokesman Andre Breton.
	www.notbored.org /sadler.html (4052 words)

	Guy Debord - Situationist, Lettrist, Philosopher - Biography
		Debord proclaimed himself the leader of the SI, and saw himself responsible for maintaining the high ideals he had in mind for the group, but to equate Debord with the SI in all its activities would be misleading.
		The Situationist addition to this theory is the recognition of "pseudo-needs", created by capitalism to continually ensure increased consumption.
		The Situationists believed that it was necessary to think of the immediate moment as the highest potential for change, and that to liberate oneself was to transform society by effecting power relations.
	www.egs.edu /resources/debord.html (1085 words)

	Interactivist Info Exchange \| Why Art Can't Kill the Situationist International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Situationist
		Often employing lightweight, hand-held cameras and sound equipment, it shows people in everyday situations and uses authentic dialogue, naturalness of action, and a minimum of rearrangement for the camera.
		Tales of the city: applying Situationist social practice to the analysis of the urban drama.
		The many lives of Asger Jorn: prompted by two recent European shows, the author examines Jorn's career, which encompassed primitivist figuration, experiments in ceramics, a founding role in both CoBrA and the Situationist International, and a mixed reception in the United States.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Situationist (694 words)

	The Situationist City - The MIT Press
		In this book, Simon Sadler investigates the artistic, architectural, and cultural theories that were once the foundations of Situationist thought, particularly as they applied to the form of the modern city.
		According to the Situationists, the benign professionalism of architecture and design had led to a sterilization of the world that threatened to wipe out any sense of spontaneity or playfulness.
		The Situationists hankered after the "pioneer spirit" of the modernist period, when new ideas, such as those of Marx, Freud, and Nietzsche, still felt fresh and vital.
	mitpress.mit.edu /catalog/item/default.asp?tid=5230&ttype=2 (334 words)

	Barbelith: Head Shop: Situationism in a nutshell
		The Situationist International (SI) was formed in 1957 by a merger of Guy Debord’s Lettrist International and Asger Jorn’s International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus (IMIB), two post-war continental art groups.
		The Situationists coined the phrase unitary urbanism to describe their experiments with creating a new city that would allow the inhabitants to play and realise their desires.
		In the SI’s own words ‘there is no Situationist art, only Situationist uses of art.’ Detournement is distinct from ‘theft’ plagiarism, which only subverts the source of the material and post-modern ‘ironic quotation’ plagiarism which only subverts the meaning of the material, the source becoming the meaning.
	www.barbelith.com /cgi-bin/articles/00000011.shtml (2420 words)

	Just Drifting: Situationism and Rock
		In this avant-garde tradition, the Situationists focused on the "suppression of art," that is they wanted to go beyond the categorization of art and culture as separate activities and to transform them into part of everyday life.
		The situationists were anti-capitalist: they were against work and looked to play and spontaneity as the cornerstones necessary to modern life.
		The situationists achieved their greatest notoriety in May 1968 when students provoked a revolt in the streets of Paris against the Gaullist regime.
	www.furious.com /perfect/situationism.html (1760 words)

	Situationist International \| libcom.org
		The Situationists fused Marxism with an analysis of the power of modern culture and the emptiness of everyday life under capitalism, and played an important role in the France 1968 uprising.
		Though usually credited to Clark, Gray, Nicholson-Smith and Radcliffe who at the time comprised the English section of the Situationist International (later excluded by the SI in Dec 67), it was apparently a wider collective work of those around the King Mob scene of the time.
		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.
	libcom.org /library/situationist-international (1022 words)

	Texts from the Spectacle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
		According to Sanguinetti, terrorism and the state are two sides of the same spectacle, each complementing and reinforcing the other, with the state making use of terrorism to strengthen its position of domination.
	www.fiu.edu /~mizrachs/situationist-bib.html (540 words)

	New Babylonians: Contemporary Visions of a Situationist City by David Cox
		The situationists of course themselves hoped to pre-empt any criticism of their movement as just another 'ism' by declaring "there is no such thing as Situationism".
		Of particular interest is an essay on the similarities between the Situationist's idea of the 'derive' (essentially navigating a city for purposes other than those officially ascribed) and the experience of using the internet.
		It turns out that many of the characteristics of the web mirror attributes the S.I. Considered prerequisite for their utopia: an ephemeral, negotiable type of city, where uses were determined by the population, surfing the web is like the idea of drifting or deriving through a city.
	www.othercinema.com /otherzine/otherzine4/nbab.html (1564 words)

	THE REALIZATION AND SUPPRESSION OF SITUATIONISM by Bob Black (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
		As Raoul Vaneigem declaimed, the SI was "not working for the spectacle of the end of the world, but for the end of the world of the spectacle." Regarding themselves as revolutionaries, in but not of this world, the Situationists perforce had to define the terms of their interactions with it.
		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.
	www.spunk.org /library/writers/black/sp001671.html (5085 words)

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