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Society of the Spectacle
The entirety of Guy Debord's classic critique of modern life lived like a trivialized consumer/spectator automaton. Debord felt this book established him as the Marx of the 20th century.
S.I. Archives
More original SI documents offered in both English and French, with profiles of Debord and Raoul Vaneigem (perhaps the best writer the SI produced, author of The Revolution of Everyday Life), links and a mailing list to keep you informed about ongoing discussions and activities.
Perspectives for Conscious Alterations in Everyday Life
Guy Debord's 1961 talk, originally transcribed in Situationist International #6. Republished in Kaperaster.
Tom Tomorrow
Tom Tomorrow's popular satirical comic This Modern World follows in the tradition of the Situationist tradition of detournement.
Adbusters
Hilarious Situationist-influenced advertising parodies.
Negativland
Myriad mischievous material from Negativland: long-standing sound manipulators and music industry provocateurs. Negativland creates farcical electronic music and juggles samples to produce a blackly hilarious critique of the perverted entertainment/information appartaus that dictates our cultural dialogue. Note also their front-line commitment to intellectual property issues, as typified by their successful campaign to correct some practices of the Recording Industry Association of America.
The Bomb: Grant Morrison's Invisibles
Wicked and eclectic, this site is primarily dedicated to Grant Morrison's comic The Invisibles. Peopled by underground insurgents and hooligans, it's one of the deepest graphic narratives around, combining a good story with more references to cultural esoterica than you can throw a rock at. This is some top shelf stylie web design as well, inspired by SI style detournement (roughly translated as "re-routing": the cutting and pasting of found objects, text or ideas to give life to destructive, and hence subversive creativity).
Bureau of Public Secrets
Many original source selections from Ken Knabb's Situationist International Anthology, as well as a generous sampling of Knabb's own SI-informed writing, all thoughfully provided without copyright restrictions. Check out one of my favorites, The Decline and Fall of the Spectacle-Commodity Economy, by Debord, wherein the author examines how the ghostly gifts of the Spectacle were tested and rejected by the denizens of LA's Black ghetto at the time of the Watts riots.
The Revolution of Everyday Life
Raoul Vaneigem's seminal Situationist Theory text. "Media, language, time; these are the giant claws with which Power manipulates humanity and moulds it brutally to its own perspective."
London Psychogeographical Association
Whacked-out theory from a group that actually walks the walk in their practice of the Derive: the Situationist practice of wandering around on foot and deliberately getting lost, because, as Debord put it, "the variety of possible combinations of ambiances, analogous to the blending of pure chemicals in an infinite number of mixtures, gives rise to feelings as differentiated and complex as any other form of spectacle can evoke."
Guy Debord and the Situationists
This excerpt from Demanding The Impossible: A History of Anarchism by Peter Marshall gives an excellent summary of SI history. Recommended!
Kaspahraster
"An anarcho-situ fanzine of essays, screeds, speculative fiction and ScHiZ fLuX kulturkampf." One of the Internet's best counterculture sites.
Situationist Definitions
As good a place as any to start . . .
Screenwash Project 2003
Red-hot fragments of Situationist marginalia coming at you from a thousand angles. Check this out, it's gonna be huge by the time they finish it. What's the connection between hot shot Web designers and the SI?
Guy Debord
Short Guy Debord biography with links.
Methods of Detournement
Guy Debord explains how to appropriate and alter advertisements, works of art and comic strips (for instance) for subversive political purposes.
Be Realistic: Demand the Impossible
Posters from the Revolution, Paris '68. This is a really cool site!
Re-Staging the Sex Pistols
This Rolling Stone article (May 15, 2001), by James Sullivan, reviews the theatrical adaption of Greil Marcus' Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century (Boston, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989), a weighty cultural studies tome that re-examined the Situationist Internationale.
The Real Thing
"I got yer 'spectacle' right here . . ." Coca-Cola brainwashing techniques revealed by conspiriologist, the late Jim Keith.
Situationist International Online
An Australian-based Situationist International Web site, regularly updated. Featuring a large archive of documents, missives, pamphlets and more. Also covers Lettrist and COBRA texts not found elsewhere.
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