Situationist International Anthology

Situationist International Anthology
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Literary Nonfiction. Politics. Critical Theory. Art. In 1957 a few European avant-garde groups came together to form the Situationist International. Picking up where the dadaists and surrealists had left off, the situationists challenged people's passive conditioning with carefully calculated scandals and the playful tactic of detournement. Seeking a more extreme social revolution than was dreamed of by most leftists, they developed an incisive critique of the global spectacle-commodity system and of its "Communist" pseudo-opposition, and their new methods of agitation helped trigger the May 1968 revolt in France. Since thenâ€”although the SI itself was dissolved in 1972â€”situationist theories and tactics have continued to inspire radical currents all over the world. The SITUATIONIST INTERNATIONAL ANTHOLOGY, generally recognized as the most comprehensive and accurately translated collection of situationist writings in English, presents a rich variety of articles, leaflets, graffiti and internal documents, ranging from early experiments in "psychogeography" to lucid analyses of the Watts riot, the Vietnam War, the Prague Spring, the Chinese Cultural Revolution and other crises and upheavals of the sixties. For this new edition the translations have all been fine-tuned and over 100 pages of new material have been added.
Country USA
Brand Brand: Bureau of Public Secrets
Manufacturer Bureau of Public Secrets
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780939682041
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780939682041
ReleaseDate 2007-03-01

Country	USA
Brand	Brand: Bureau of Public Secrets
Manufacturer	Bureau of Public Secrets
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780939682041
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780939682041
ReleaseDate	2007-03-01

Situationist International Anthology

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